Why use drupal as your open-source web platform
Glad you asked. Here's why:
- Drupal is free. No need to purchase, no licensing fees, no "pay for a new upgrade" offers.
- It's open source. Meaning, you are not tied to your current proprietary content management system
- Drupal is widely used. There are many developers solving problems and tasks similar to yours, and there's a huge chance that they will share their solution with the community.
- "Scratch your own itch". There's nothing more efficient than solving own problems, rather than somebody else's. If there's something that needs fixed or improved in drupal, rest assured it will be done much faster than if you'd ask the supplier of a proprietary CMS to change even a small bit of code.
- Drupal is modular, flexible, adaptable and expandable. Multi-tiered user permissions, cross-categorization of content, multiple content-types, you name it. Some of it may sound like slang, but we'll be glad to explain in detail, if you ask.
- Sshhh, a secret. Drupal performs great in search results. A SEO heaven!
Some known sites, based on drupal.
Global- Whitehouse
- Lucas Arts
- Popular Science
- AOL Corporate
- Yahoo! Research
- MTV United Kingdom
- Sony Music
- Warner Brothers records
Lithuania
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