Why Drupal

Drupal Facts

• Drupal is used by very large companies including Sony, IBM, AOL, and Yahoo, Google, magazines, universities, many political campaign websites, and government agencies - including the U.S. government!
• Drupal is used for many types of sites including eCommerce by big names such as Warner Brothers Records.

Samples Sites:

• MyPlay by Sony Music Entertainment
• Warner Brothers Records and a sample artist site under their label: Francesca Battistelli
• Yahoo! Research portal
• Adobe Flex Showcase | Flex.org
• The Linux Foundation Developer Network and Video Site
• AOL Corporate
• InfoWord
• Recovery.gov - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
• M-Lab by Google and partners
• Virgin Radio
• Nokia - Research Center
• Symantec - for Symantec Connect / Community site
• OxFam International

Many Benefits:

• Robust functionality for multi-user websites including control of access and privileges down to a very granular and systematic level
• Separation of content from presentation
• In-place editing of content in addition to administrative views
• Authentication and security
• Open source with a strong community
• Scalability and Extensibility

Links:

• IBM on Open Source Software Development
• Dries Buytaert's (creator of Drupal) list of sites using Drupal