But many times companies switch off of older services like Vignette to Drupal, Erickson says.
Visit the White House on Drupal.org or stop by the White House GitHub profile.
Acquia also has an iPhone app for managing and editing Drupal websites on the go (see images).
At the same time its free Drupal Commons product competes with collaboration companies like Jive Software or Telligent.
Many of the modules serve special needs and do not make sense to the market Drupal is after.
It is at this last stage that the Drupal Gardens Open Source SaaS model really saves the day.
But eventually, for good reasons, many web sites will want to do more than Drupal Gardens can allow.
Drupal is not only used by smaller customers who want a free platform but also larger customers, says Erickson.
As more and more modules are added to Drupal Gardens, more and more will be possible through declarative configuration.
Buytaert and the Drupal Gardens are adding more and more modules every month.
Drupal integrates many popular features of content management systems, weblogs, collaborative tools and discussion-based community software into one easy-to-use package.
One of the hardest decisions he made was to limit their work exclusively on Drupal rather than using multiple platforms.
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Since Commercial Progression had a lot to gain from the Drupal platform, they decided to give back to the community.
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Drupal is one of the most prominent content management systems and is used by about 2.1% of all websites worldwide.
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Another option is Drupal Commons, a suite of social networking capabilities assembled by Acquia from the vast Drupal open source world.
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Drupal Gardens is focusing on bringing only the portion of the thousands of modules over that help create general purpose web sites.
Alex Fisher, a native of Dearborn, Michigan was able to build a business with six employees by designing websites using Drupal.
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As a hobby project in 1999, Dries Buytaert created an open source version of a message board, which he called Drupal.
Drupal is one of several open source-based frameworks for creating web sites.
It would be wise for Drupal Commons to educate the market about how to put its functionality to work to create surprises.
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Hadoop is neither a community-based open source project like Linux or Drupal nor a commercial open core company like Alfresco, or JBoss.
The company has one product called Acquia Network, which is a set of tools and services for companies using the open source Drupal system.
What is so interesting about Drupal Gardens is that it offers a way out of this dilemma that may show the way to better software.
So when Dries finished up his PhD in computer science and engineering, he wanted to see if he could turn Drupal into a viable business.
Whether you're on Drupal.org or GitHub, interested in We the People or our mobile apps, if you're a developer we want to work with you.
Drupal Gardens is combining principles of open source to the Software as a Service model to find a way to get the best of both worlds.
Fisher opened up an office last year and business has increased ten-fold compared to their first year in business as a result of sticking to Drupal exclusively.
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By sticking with the declarative model, Drupal Gardens can upgrade layers of software in the background with minimal disruption to the users, who do not have to worry about upgrades.
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