Status: On Going
Status: On Going
Drupal is a free open source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the General Public License (GNU). Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Many people and organizations are using Drupal for doing different websites.
Drupal is now running in the Whitehouse Government for doing presidential websites. Being one of the world's largest consumers of computer software the U.S. government using Drupal largely. This is a big accomplishment for Drupal. The United States government is not new to Drupal, several agencies including the Department of Defense, Commerce, Education, and the General Service Administration have been using Drupal.
They are using this because of its flexibility and modularity which enables the organizations to build sites quickly at lower cost than most other systems. Drupal is a great fit in terms of President Barack Obama. He affirms that, Drupal supports to reduce cost, high security and acts quickly and also it enables to add new functionality going forward as their needs increase.
Drupal software saves the White House from dependency on any particular proprietary provider and positions them to take advantage of the ongoing innovation of Drupal's big strong developer community. Drupal offers accessible content management, traditional web content management features, social and community oriented publishing so it will be easy to facilitate open communication and participation. Drupal highly matching with the US Government needs, so they are extremely satisfied with this software and used by the people largely.
