MNN.com – Drupal showcase for January 2009 February 2, 2009
Posted by goteti in Open Source Content Management.Tags: Azri, Content Management, Drupal, Linkedin, Publishing
1 comment so far
Drupal adoption seems to be taking off on a new trajectory this year, with companies, start-ups and various media organisations chosing it over loads of powerful commercial ECMs across the board.
A dvertising Icon Joel Babbit and Rolling Stones Keyboardist Chuck Leavell Team Up to Launch Mother Nature Network – MNN.COM Environmental News website giving Corporate Sponsors a New Way to reach the masses and tell their Green Initiatives story. The MNN.COM website also provides a new way for advertisers to sponsor sections of the site and promote awareness of their corporate green initiatives.
Explaining the choice of platform the developers from Glick, a Drupal development company stated they chose it for ‘the power and flexibility of the platform’ apart from the active Drupal community.
Going by the rate at which every one of 2009’s 1300 tickets has been sold out for DrupalCon DC, this year seems to have a lot in store for this platform!
Drupal features amongst 5 hot technologies to adopt! January 30, 2009
Posted by goteti in Open Source Content Management.Tags: Azri, Content Management, Drupal, Linkedin
add a comment
A blog post 5 Hot Technologies To Learn To Rev Up Your Web 3.0 Smarts on Informationweek.com today by Alexander Wolfe talks about how Drupal’s evolving as one of the top 5 hot technologies out there. In his own words…
The fifth technology on my list is something I’ve been resisting. It’s the Drupal open-source content management system. I’ve always been a big fan of Joomla, which is a competing open-source CMS. However, Drupal seems to be gaining ground as the go-to platform for many Web sites (newer sites are using it and older sites are migrating to it.
Drupal invades Germany! January 20, 2009
Posted by goteti in Open Source Content Management.Tags: Azri, Drupal, DrupalCamp, Germany
add a comment
Germany’s traditionally been a Typo3 playground for quite some time. Anyone who’d wanted a CMS swore by Typo3. 2009 seems to be a year that might simply change the equation for people seeking to adopt FLOSS ECMS. The success of DrupalCamp Koln / Drupal Ubercart training is a showcase of the Belgian spun product entering it’s neighbouring country. And, Dries Buytaert the creator, other community leaders like Robert Douglass and Jeffrey McGuire being in attendance, it did make it’s case strong. Hope to see more Drupal projects coming out of Germany soon.
Btw, joining the cause, we have a couple of Drupal projects happening in Germany as well. www.itsm-consulting.com is a Drupal based site we built for one of our clients based in Frankfurt. Looking forward to more opportunities in Germany, and events such as the one in Koln surely do good to promote the product/platform.
Odesk reports growth in Drupal and Joomla opportunities January 9, 2009
Posted by goteti in Open Source Content Management.Tags: Drupal, Joomla
add a comment
A recent post by oDesk, the leading marketplace where freelancers and companies find IT projects online reports that demand for Drupal and Joomla projects have been on the upside in 2008.
The site compiled data analysed from over 100,000 jobs posted in 2008. While there has been enormous interest for WordPress developers and SEO consultants, the sheer number of resources available in this space makes it a very competive space.
The report also mentions that there has been a steady rise in requests for skillsets in areas where resources are scarce, and these include jobs in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) and Drupal which makes it an interesting space to build competence in.
Enclosed, a detail presentation of their findings:
So…as usual, we are looking forward to the Drupal and Joomla spaces to continue and grow, especially so in the current economic environment, and are also eager to take up migration projects to these open source projects. Anyone interested in details, drop us a mail at mohan@azri.in 🙂
Drupal for Enterprise October 1, 2008
Posted by goteti in Uncategorized.1 comment so far
Following Acquia’s US $7 million fundraising efforts late last year, the company has gone ahead, taken a page out of the Redhats of the world and released Acquia Drupal yesterday. The project which was code-named Carbon bundles essential Drupal modules for building ‘social publishing sites’. The release is available for free. Now, this seems to be going into serious business!
Forrester picks ‘Drupal’ as one of the top two OSS Content Management Systems June 20, 2008
Posted by goteti in Open Source Content Management.Tags: Drupal, Forrester
add a comment
Forrester Research released a report earlier this month in which it pointed to Drupal as the top-two open-source WCM systems in the world today. The other platform mentioned was Alfresco. CNET.com reports:
As organizations embark on next-generation Web content management (WCM) initiatives, they want to avoid the mistakes made in earlier, more costly WCM projects. As a result, information and knowledge management professionals increasingly show an interest in open source WCM as a way of controlling software costs and increasing their access to product-specific expertise in the marketplace.
That’s great: Enterprises should move to open-source web content management offerings. But which ones? Out of the wide pool of open-source web content management projects (There are, quite literally, hundreds), Forrester says there are two to which CIOs and CTOs need to pay particular attention:
Alfresco and Drupal (Acquia).
The original report can be downloaded at http://forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,46162,00.html (It costs Price: US $279) .
Serious decision makers, do pick it up…it’s better to be penny foolish and pound wise 🙂
Buytaert’s crystal ball says Drupal to be in top 3 January 5, 2008
Posted by goteti in Uncategorized.add a comment
CMSWire has a story where Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal and co-founder of Acquia states that by the end of 2008 the FLOSS CMS market will consolidate with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal. The rest (i.e. Plone, Typo3, Xoops, e107, ezPublish, dotNetNuke, etc) will “slow down significantly” he says.
Drupal funded ;-) December 21, 2007
Posted by goteti in Open Source Content Management.Tags: Content Management, Drupal, investment, Open Source, venture capital
add a comment
Drupal seems to be evolving into a open source content publishing framework with an agenda to be around for a long time to come. A collective of investors announced that they are pumping in around $7 million to get Drupal geared to take on the Enterprise content publishing world. Now this is good news as the community should witness some interesting activity around the project soon.
Drupal for the ‘Grassroots’! April 10, 2007
Posted by goteti in Information Society, Open Source Content Management.Tags: Content Management, Drupal, free solutions, non profits
add a comment
Well, litterally so, it’s also about an organisation called Grassroots.org. I just came across this post on the Digital Divide mailing list yesterday. The organisation offers nonprofits ICT solutions for free. And, one of the tools they include in their offering is the Drupal Content management platform.
While Drupal is Free (as it’s open source), this organisation goes a step further and offers free hosting, free support and training material and free domain name registration for the first year! Well, I sure hope non profits make use of this opportunity.
And yes, another thing! These guys are applying for an innovation fund, and need some help, as they are running against time (there is a deadline to meet in 3 days, on the 14th). Called the NetSquared innovation fund, it finances projects based on a voting system from the larger community out there. So, please visit http://www.netsquared.org/projects/vote and register / vote.
It’s good to see open source tools being adopted by ‘grassroots’ organisations to further their cause, and happy to note that Drupal is out there as the choice.
The famed fight for the fourth estate? November 20, 2005
Posted by goteti in Uncategorized.add a comment
In a historic role reversal, the reportage of Yahoo Inc.’s foreign correspondent Kevin Sites is being distributed to print publications via Scripps Howard News Service
Static 