We are excited to announce a new direction for Exponent CMS, and we are very interested to hear your feedback (see link at the end of this post).. We will quickly be transitioning Exponent into Microsoft's .NET Framework. The LAMP stack has served us well over the years but we believe this decision will benefit Exponent in the long run. It was fun while it lasted, but let’s face it: Microsoft isn't going anywhere. We wholeheartedly believe that unless we join forces with such formidable opponent, Exponent may continue to be just another CMS in a sea of PHP code.

Exponent is now using Launchpad.net to help centralize development efforts. If you're looking to get involved in the project, you'll be able to join the Exponent CMS Community Team and sign up for the Exponent Mailing List, View Exponent Codelines for both 1.0 and 2.0 version, and File Bug reports.

For the past few weeks, many Exponent websites have been under attack were successfully hacked.

A few helpful updates for everyone.  First, we have provided a security patch for you .96 installs.  Many of you are still running some really old Exponent code, so we want to make sure you guys have the latest patches to keep them running smooth.  It is strongly recommended you

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Well we ran into a few technical difficulties getting the web conference software set up. It turns out that Adobe ConnectPro requires Flash 10 where as simply Adobe Connect that we had tested on only requires Flash 9. It took a bit to get all the computers updated. If I remember correctly, we finally got started about 6:45 - 7 instead of 6:30.

Online Innovative Creations has been invited by the World Organization of Webmasters, Central Illinois chapter to give a presentation on Exponent.

The open source Exponent CMS project has now joined the Twitter social networking page.

The Exponent 2.0 codeline has now become Open Source and available for download.

A big thank you to those of you who were able to attend the second in Online Innovative Creation's series of Exponent 2.0 Webinars held last Wednesday. There were 32 of you in attendance, of which we got some very good feedback.