What do The Prince of Darkness and Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the web have in common?
No, they are not both RCS clients, but we did help on the Ozzy project... You guessed it, they are both using Drupal to power they web presence!
Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal release the latest Drupal core download statistics. In the last year, Drupal core was downloaded more than 600,000 times. Wow!
[Chart of Drupal core download statistics originally embedded here — image credit Dries Buytaert.]
Project leaders are always looking for ammo to help them make their case to use Drupal when speaking to the IT department or their supervisor.
Via my Google Alert, I got this great post from Andrew Clifford.
Here’s what he had to say about Drupal
After looking at the alternatives, Drupal was the obvious choice:
- It is hugely popular, and supports major sites like MTV.
- It uses industry-standard products (Apache HTTP server, MySQL, PHP).
- It can run on Linux or Windows.
- It is 100% open source - there are no hidden license restrictions or costs.
- It has a very active open source community.
- There are hundreds of free add-on modules you can use to build websites that do pretty much anything.
I like Andrew’s final comment:
“But we must not stick our heads in the sand. Powerful, simple, cheap, collaborative, web-based tools like Drupal change the rules. If you work in IT and you do not understand tools like this, you could be swept away.”
What's next for Drupal?
The core team is currently working on Drupal 6, due later this year. Perhaps at Drupalcon in September?