The Vision
Russell launched the company in 2002, initially building hard-coded, static websites for clients.
Storm then started to use a CMS called Mambo, which was alot easier for building client sites.
Joomla! 1.0 was released on September 22, 2005 as a rebranded release of Mambo 4.5.2.3.
At the time, there were lots of agencies who were working with Drupal, but not many had started to support Joomla and Wordpress. So Russell decided to build Storm to work exclusively with open source products such as Joomla and Wordpress and that is still the case today.