Drupal gaining acceptance in the enterprise - FierceContentManagement

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Posted Thu, 03/12/2009 - 02:46 by Sam Rose
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http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/drupal-drupalcon-enterprise...

It's a great time to be an open source developer. At least, that was the mood Thursday morning at DrupalCon in Washington, D.C. Drupal founder Dries Buytaert told a crowd of over 1,000 developers and fans that Drupal's growth is strong and will continue to be strong throughout 2009. According to Buytaert, Drupal was downloaded 200,000 times last month alone, a 100 percent increase over last year.

Drupal is the PHP-based CMS that powers several high-profile public sites like President Obama's Recovery.gov and Mother Jones (not to mention FierceContentManagement), as well as internal departmental sites within major corporations like Biogen Idec.

As FierceContentManagement reported in November, open-source solutions are an attractive option for organizations looking to cut costs by eliminating CMS license fees.

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I am actually interested in

by Sam Rose - 03/12/2009 - 02:48

I am actually interested in this, and http://socialsynergyweb.org/culturing/blog/one-one-ross-mayfield-socialt... because many organizations are at least partially required to operate in some mode of "enterprise".

IOW, they need to have some form of formal face, some system of compliance with laws and regulations, and some kind of general organization of information and knowledge. So, this is relevant to us

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Rick mentioned that

by Sam Rose - 03/12/2009 - 11:06

Rick mentioned that "enterprise" is actually a bad label to use. I tend to agree, but still think it is worht thinking about:

* Why people use the label

* How to communicate to them in a way that helps them think about things in a different way

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