5- Can you tell us a little about your new projects: iJoomla Surveys and the iJoomla News Portal?

We're very excited about both projects. The news portal was born when I noticed that people were using the magazine component as a news component. Although they were able to make it work, it wasn't completely the right solution. The natural step was to create a component that would be used just for news publishing. That means dynamic content and a hands-off approach that allows users to publish a constant flow of news articles with minimum effort.

The Surveys component was an idea that I got more and more excited about after doing some research and seeing what's out there in the non-Joomla world. It turns out that most Survey applications cost anything between 20 to 200 USD per month and limit the responses. If there's anything I've learned about Joomla users it's that they like to keep everything under the same "roof," which is the Joomla admin. They certainly don't want to send their visitors to another platform or site. So I thought offering surveys for a reasonable price and without usage limitation would be something a lot of people would appreciate. So far the responses have been fantastic. Users really like it and have even given us a few new feature ideas.

6- Now that you cover magazines, news and surveys, do custom components cover every professional's needs in content management ?
The problem for Mambo and then Joomla has always been that only small and medium-sized sites used them. Big companies wouldn't touch them. The reason was quality. The development standard for components was pretty low, even with commercial components. I've used and tested a lot of components in the past year-and-a-half and discovered that too many of them were not developed professionally. Large firms are not going to work with platforms that give them headaches. They would much rather spend a few hundred or even thousands of dollars and get something that works. iJoomla was created to close this gap and provide truly professional components that even big sites -- sites that don't compromise on quality -- can use. When I say professional I'm talking about three specific areas:

• Professional product design;
• Professional programming;
• Professional QA.

We really do everything we can to make sure that our components are as good as they can be. All of the members of our team (currently around ten people) are top professionals. I think that in time, big companies will realize that using an open source system like Joomla together with our professional components is a solid, economical and logical solution.