What is Drupal?

Drupal is free open-source software that is distributed under the General Public License (GPL), and allows an individual, small businesses and a community of users to easily publish, manage, and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal is rapidly becoming a known leader in the content management system (CMS) area for its ease of use, flexibility, and strong capabilities. Drupal has developed wonderful momentum over the last few years and has been utilized by such brand identifiable names as Yahoo, eBay, NASA, NATO, MTV, and is a favorite for many of the world’s most prestigious universities (i.e. MIT, Purdue, and University of California Berkeley).

Drupal is maintained and developed by a passionate community of users and developers.
Drupal has an excellent reputation for being a robust, flexible, user friendly platform. Drupal’s goal is to help users manage website content such as blogs, photos, articles, newsletters, podcasting, forums, peer-to-peer social networking, and file uploads/downloads. Drupal takes care of the details of how important information is arranged and personalized and lets users focus on the actual content to be displayed. Drupal is designed to make this task easy via a site administration interface.

Drupal is for every one:

Drupal can be used in a variety of capacities.

• Corporate websites
• Community web portals
• Social networking sites
• Intranet applications
• Personal websites or blogs
• E-commerce applications

"Ultimately, we decided on Drupal because of its breadth of capabilities, powerful taxonomy, and extensibility."
- Yahoo technology executives as reported in www.boxesandarrows.com

Why Drupal?

• Market Leader: Drupal is the number one deployed open source web content management solution in the market today (as documented by Spikesource): This broad adoption has resulted in more complete production-proven solutions with staying power.
• Large and Mature Developer Community: In development since 2001, Drupal enjoys a large community of professional developers with a mature development process and coding practices that ensures rapid delivery of high quality functionality.
• Feature Rich: Broad feature set comparable with proprietary solutions such as Vignette, at a fraction of the cost.
• Scalability: Advanced features include a powerful taxonomy system, fine-grained security, and a distributed architecture, all of which help Drupal scale with your desire needs.
• Easy to customize and integrate: Open source plus a modular plug-in architecture enables easy integration and customization for developers.