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buytaert.net - 10/22/2009

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Whitehouse.gov using Drupal Big, exciting news! The flag ship website of the U.S. government, Whitehouse.gov , just relaunched on Drupal. This is a big day for Drupal , and for Open Source in government, and something all of us in the community should be very proud of. First of all, I think ...

radar.oreilly.com - 10/26/2009

Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal

— radar.oreilly.com — Yesterday, the new media team at the White House announced via the Associated Press that whitehouse.gov is... now running on Drupal , the open source content management system. That Drupal implementation is in turn running on a Red Hat Linux system with ... (more) Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal

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personaldemocracy.com - 10/26/2009

WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated]

— personaldemocracy.com — WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has... ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the ... (more) WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated]

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techpresident.com - 10/25/2009

WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated]

— techpresident.com — WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has... ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the ... (more) WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated]

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nice summary of the Open Source CMS market share report 2009 http://bit.ly/BmPa9 #drupal #joomla #wordpress 25 days ago

Compared watcher module, comment notify module and notify module. Went with comment notify module for use on http://buytaert.net #drupal 27 days ago

RT @aboussaidi Whitehouse.gov using Drupal http://buytaert.net/ 10/27/2009

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Metasploit finds another way to go commercial
Open Source — ... all good. He revealed in a blog post called Metasploit Rising that he’s been working on the project as a hobby for six years, but he will now have a full-time job as Chief Security Officer for Rapid7. The Metasploit developer who goes by the nom de keyboard Egypt will also go on salary at Rapid7. (Don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it.) Projects get commercial arms all the time, with lead developers often becoming executives like Dries Buytaert at Drupal or Matt Mullenweg at WordPress. This is generally received with much ...

Under First Open-Source Prez Obama, White House Adopts Drupal, but at What Cost?
Fast Company - Technology — ... As Buytaert himself notes on his Web site, the fact the platform is open source is "a perfect match for President Barack Obama's push for an open and transparent government." He also sees another, perhaps more significant message in the move--it could well be read as a sign that the U.S. government has realized open source code doesn't "pose additional risks compared to proprietary software, and furthermore, that by moving away from proprietary software, they are not being locked into a particular technology." That fact must have been hotly debated by techie-types and ...

Drupal Moves Into the White House
NYT > Technology — ... with prominent open source types, and there seems to be a notion that open source software matches up well with President Obama’s espoused ideals on transparency and community involvement in projects. The fact of the matter, though, is that Drupal seems to be doing just fine with or without government support. The underlying code for Drupal was written in 2001 by Dries Buytaert , who has since gone on to become chief technology officer of ...

Drupal Moves Into the White House
Bits — ... with prominent open source types, and there seems to be a notion that open source software matches up well with President Obama’s espoused ideals on transparency and community involvement in projects. The fact of the matter, though, is that Drupal seems to be doing just fine with or without government support. The underlying code for Drupal was written in 2001 by Dries Buytaert , who has since gone on to become chief technology officer of ...