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