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The Business of Drupal
By Robert Douglass
Advisor, Acquia
Advisor, Commerce Guys
Advisor, ICanLocalize
Drupal Association
Drupal-Initiative.de
- Ben Hur
Platforms
big giant slabs of software that don't quite do anything out of the box, but which enable a whole world of new and interesting applications
- Joel Spolsky
Drupal is our platform
= Platform
Value Added Resellers
A value-added reseller (VAR) ... adds features to an existing product, then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution.
- Wikipedia
Value Added Resellers
combines [...] components to build complete systems. For example, a VAR might take a computer chip, printer, hard drive, monitor and graphics software from different vendors, put it together, and package it as a specialized computer-aided design system.
- Allbusiness.com
VARs on Drupal
Implementation
Integration
Customizing
Consulting
Training
Independent Software Vendors
An ISV is a company "specializing in making or selling software, designed for mass marketing or for niche markets."
- Wikipedia
Independent Software Vendors
Specialized products generally offer higher productivity to organizations than more generalized software
- Wikipedia
ISVs on Drupal
Web services
Distributions
Hosting
Web sites built on Drupal
Where are you?
Web services
Distributions
Hosting
Web sites built on Drupal
Implementation
Integration
Customizing
Consulting
Training
VAR ISV
Sharepoint revenue exceeded $1 billion in 2008
Forrester expects global $5 billion by 2012
Sharepoint Expo 2009
Solutions
Connectors to other systems
Performance enhancements
Workflow
Analytics
Development tools
Hardware
Search
Services
Consulting
Coding
Design / Creative
Integration
Data migration
Will we see lots of Drupal Solutions?
Where are the Drupal Millionaires?
I make Drupal websites
Its good to have plenty of work to do, but did we forget along the way how we got started and why we found and chose Drupal to begin with? What happened to BUILDing websites?
The Elephants
Accenture
IBM
Capgemini
T-Systems
Get the big fish
Specialize
Form partnerships
Grow to cover all needs
Make products
Software services
Specialize
Cyrve:
data migration
Tag One: performance
Commerce Guys:
e-commerce
Development Seed: mapping
Form partnerships
Acquia
Subcontract with big companies
Grow
Chapter Three
ProPeople
Acquia
The Elephants
Accenture
IBM
Capgemini
T-Systems
Make products
Phase 2 Technologies
Harvard University
Funny Monkey
Development Seed
Distributions
Open Atrium
Open Publish
Drupal Commons
Pantheon
Pressflow
Drupal.org, Drupal 7
Software Services (SaaS)
Mollom
ICanLocalize.com
Commerce Guys
Google Apps
Open Calais
San Francisco, DrupalCon, everything eventually comes Germany, so a good view into the future. Matt S., first DrupalCon, ....
Drupal Gardens
30,000 Sites online
Hosting, scalability, upgrades
No lock-in: export
and walk away
Always a free ($) option
Acquia has many products - Id gladly stand here and talk about all of them, but Im only going to focus on one. In particular because it is a new solution for people who just want a website with some basic publishing and social features, and dont want to hire a Drupal developer to build it for them. I also want to talk about it because I think it creates some new opportunities for professionals like yourselves who build websites professionally.
What if there were an "App Store" for Drupal?
Questions?
[email protected]/#!/robertDouglass
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