Big Blue Looks at Drupal CMS

IBM developerWorks says Drupal up to the task of creating Web 2.0 websites

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006; 05:46 AM

IBM's developerWorks site published the first in a series of articled entitled "Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site."  The focus of the new series is using the popular Content Management System (CMS) Drupal for creating a Web 2.0 site.  

The "pilot" article is a comparative review of several modern CMSs and blogging platforms.  It provides the rationale for choosing Drupal over the other content management platforms. The review compares a number of open source packages and concludes that Drupal is the best choice for creating a web standard compliant and secure collaboration websites.  The results of the review are summarized according to several criteria (See graphic).

developerWorks' decision to concentrate on Drupal for a high-quality web development feature is likely to further boost the number of Drupal's adopters and community members. 

Drupal is a CMS and development framework that by default runs on a standard LAMP configuration.  Its functionalities are easily expanded using a number of free community-submitted modules.  The latest version of Drupal includes built-in methods for implementing JavaScript/AJAX.