In reply to Jeff Chandler.

Great question. I can't speak personally for Dan - but I know with regards to our vision as a team, we see the eCommerce landscape growing, maturing and continuing to become more and more innovative. You could ask a similar question, swapping "publishing landscape" for "eCommerce landscape" - and you see how drastically WordPress has revolutionized that space. We believe the same thing can happen in the eCommerce space.

That said - many, many things about WordPress simply aren't made for eCommerce. From database schemas to data models to transactional database writes - there is a lot of shoehorning that we have done in the last 10 years :) While I see things like WP eCommerce, Woo, and Easy Digital Downloads continuing to do phenomenally well as stand-alone plugins - I'll be shocked if the coming years don't include SaaS businesses, built upon these upon source projects, to mitigate WordPress's native shortcomings (note: "shortcomings", in that it's not intrinsically designed for eCommerce.). Things like the upcoming WP-API make opportunities like that all the more feasible.

The technical and economical landscape is growing and evolving at a more rapid pace than ever before - and open source software like WordPress and WP eCommerce makes it possible for businesses to be a meaningful part of the global economy. We couldn't be more excited to be a part of it.