Drupal Workshop Intro
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Achieving Objectives with
Drupal Content Management
Jeff Eaton - Lullabot
Josh Ward - Volacci
Emanuel London – Duo Consulting
Ryan Szrama – Commerce Guys
Doug Vann – Doug Vann Consulting
Sonny Cohen – Duo Consulting
• Open Source CMS• Community• Resources• Support• Modules• Themes• Deployments
Business Case for DrupalBusiness Case for Drupal
Drupal Is:
• Open Source
• Community Supported
• Commercially Supported
• Content Management System
• Drupal =”DROO-pull,"
• Logo: Eyes of Infinity ~ In a Drop!
• (Drupal is Dutch for Drop)• (Drupal founder, Dries, is Dutch)
• Song: Ask Doug
Drupal FolkloreDROP --->DRUPAL
Open Source
Source code in public domain
GPL – General Public License
Acquisition cost = $0
Community Supported
Thriving developer community
Aggressive adoption of CMS
Hundreds of applications
Commercial Involvement
Commercial Drupal Support
Platform Stability Support
Essential Modules
Search
Hosting
Drupal Gardens & Buzzr
Authorized Support Network
Business Case for DrupalBusiness Case for Drupal
A Mercenary’s PerspectiveA Mercenary’s Perspective
Business Case for DrupalBusiness Case for Drupal
• ~500,000 Drupal 5 & 6 sites *• > 1% of Top 1 million sites• = ~ 10,000 Websites• ~ 98% of small, shared server
sites
*(Wordpress = 8.5%, Joomla = 1.2%)
• ~500,000 Drupal 5 & 6 sites *• > 1% of Top 1 million sites• = ~ 10,000 Websites• ~ 98% of small, shared server
sites
*(Wordpress = 8.5%, Joomla = 1.2%)
* Based on crawls performed by Acquia
Religious Wars: The Volume Game
Business Case for DrupalBusiness Case for Drupal
Interoperability
Functionality
Commercial Support
Growing Reputation
Technical Resources
Interoperability
Functionality
Commercial Support
Growing Reputation
Technical Resources
Business Case for DrupalBusiness Case for Drupal
InteroperabilityInteroperability
• Acquia Drupal Downloadable from Microsoft Website
• New SQL server driver for PHP• Drupal 7 runs SQL server• Also support for other DB
• Acquia Drupal Downloadable from Microsoft Website
• New SQL server driver for PHP• Drupal 7 runs SQL server• Also support for other DB
Business Case for DrupalBusiness Case for Drupal
FunctionalityFunctionality
• 6700 Contribute Projects
• “There’s a module for that”
• 6700 Contribute Projects
• “There’s a module for that”
Business Case for DrupalBusiness Case for Drupal
Business Case for DrupalBusiness Case for Drupal
Commercial SupportCommercial Support
Achieving Objectives with
Drupal Content Management
Jeff Eaton - Lollabot
Josh Ward - Volacci
Emanuel London - DuoConsulting
Ryan Szrama – Commerce Guys
Doug Vann – Doug Vann Consulting
Sonny Cohen – Duo Consulting