Archive for the ‘Content Management Systems (CMS)’ Category

Drupal in the Oval Office

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Drupal, the open source content management system, has just received a big vote of confidence. It’s now powering the White House website. Obama’s campaign used it to power its campaign website and it’s already been powering Recovery.gov for some time, but this is another move into the spotlight for this solid content management choice.

White House [...]

InfoWorld’s Best of Open Source Software 2009

Monday, September 14th, 2009

InfoWorld compiles its list of best open source software every year about this time. This is this year’s list. For some reason, likely tied to a misguided attempt to generate more page views, InfoWorld presents the list as a series of slides which load extremely slowly. In this post, I’ve pulled out all of the [...]

Best of Open Source Software 8/2008

Friday, February 27th, 2009

The article by InfoWorld identifies their picks for best of open source in a variety of categories. It was part of the case we made for choosing Liferay Portal as an intranet solution and could be interesting when making other base technology choices.

Different categories will likely be interesting to different people. I’ve pulled out all [...]

CMS adoption: who’s up, who’s down?

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

I was looking up info on CMS adoption rates and came across a couple items I wanted to keep track of for later.

A Gartner report on CMS in general, but geared toward higher end (read: generating lots of dough) and excluding open source solutions. I would love to find a similar report on just open [...]

GPL License Explanation for Non-Lawyers

Friday, March 28th, 2008

We have been doing some more detailed looking into the licensing for Drupal. The problem is a complex one and the subject of quite a bit of speculation in the software world. It has yet to be definitively decided in the courts. Drupal is licensed under an open source license called the GNU Public License [...]

Information on Blog Implementation

Friday, January 4th, 2008

This blog is implemented with WordPress. WordPress is a php blog system which appears to be fairly robust and has quite a following on the web right now. The latest version of WordPress stands at 2.3.2 which was released in December 2007. Version 2.5 is planned for March 2008.

In implementing this site I [...]