About Drupal

Drupal is a open-source content management system (CMS), developed in the programming language PHP and published under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Drupal's popularity

Drupal has become very popular the last years. It's been downloaded more then 2 million times already from homebase Drupal.org. Behind it is a large community, which is alway developing Drupal even further. In the Open Source CMS Award 2009 Drupal won the "2007 Overall Open Source CMS award." The wide 'community' base of passionate developers makes Drupal a very realiable open source content management system.

Why Drupal?

We'd love to show you, but to begin - here are the best reasons:

• Open sourse, so widely supported
• Since it's open source, you don't have to rely on one supplier
• Functionalities are endless, thanks to thousands and thousands of modules developed by the Drupal Community.
• Layout and content is separated, so every design is possible.
• Search-engine friendly Google reads Drupal websites extremely well, so Drupal sites are ranked high in the Google Search Results.

Who's using Drupal?

It's good to know there are some major companies using Drupals. Here's a list of other companies who also thought Drupal would be the perfect solution for there online wants.

• MTV
  MTV's English website
• Nike Beijing Olympics
  International, multilingual site in 13 languages.
• The White House
  The website for the US government 
• Bright.nl
  Lifestyle, design and development weblog (Dutch)
• Warner Bros +Reprise Records
  Warner Bros website
• NASA
  NASA's Academy of Program / Project and Engineering Leadership
• Belgische overheid
  Belgium Government
• AOL
  America Online Corporate website
• Sun Microsystems
  OpenOffice Extensions website
• Amnesty International
  General Website

Technical specifications

Drupal operates on Windows, MacOS, Linux and every other avalaible platform that supports Apache webservice or IIS and PHP . Because Drupal needs a database to save content and settings, the must be access to a MySQL or PostgreSQL database.

Read more about Drupal on Drupal.org (technical) and Drupal.com (commercial).