Radek Mejer on their move from an in house framework to Laravel:
And bam! I’ve found it. Laravel was the only framework matching DSE “philosophy”. It’s easy to use, yet it has huge potential for building complex things. Laravel supports packages and Eloquent is the best ORM I’ve seen in years.
DeSmart also decided to keep some of their modules from the previous framework and release them as open source packages. One is a custom pagination and the second is a laravel-layout.
DeSmart’s Laravel Story is a post from Laravel News.