History
The SilverStripe software is developed by SilverStripe Limited, a website development company founded in 2000.
Prior to SilverStripe 2.x, the CMS was commercially available under a proprietary license. Development of SilverStripe 2.X started in late 2005, as a complete overhaul to take advantage of object orientation and new features in PHP5.
On 3 February 2007, SilverStripe 2.0.0 was released publicly as free and open source software.
In March 2007, SilverStripe was selected for the Google Summer of Code program. This program resulted in the 2.2 release of SilverStripe.
On 29 November 2007, SilverStripe announced they would be participating in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. This led to a proliferation of themes, translations and widgets that broadened the system.
In late 2008, SilverStripe split its main website into silverstripe.com, to act as the home for the company behind the software, and silverstripe.org, to act as the home for the software and its open source community.
In May 2009, the SilverStripe company formed partner associations with other website development companies to represent the company in foreign markets.
In February 2010, SilverStripe claimed the software had been downloaded 250,000 times since first released.
In November 2010, Microsoft blogged that SilverStripe CMS became the world's first open source web application to attain its 'Certified for Windows' status.
In June 2012, SilverStripe 3.0 CMS was released, containing significant usability and developer API changes; SilverStripe Framework was released for the first time as a stand-alone framework.
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