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Feeling Blue, IBM Courting Drupal

DrupalHot off the gossip wire: IBM is falling for Drupal. Hmmmm. ECM leader IBM has developed a series of nine tutorials for Open Source CMS Drupal. And as it turns out, Drupal runs rather well on IBM Linux servers while plugged-into IBM's DB2 Express-C database. The final tutorial covers just exactly how to do that.

The IBM team compared several popular products including Mambo, Typo3, Ruby on Rails, Movable Type, WordPress, and TextPattern before selecting Drupal.

Their decision was based on a list of criteria presented in their first tutorial (see below). The primary items of concern where:

  • Separation of content from presentation
  • In-place commenting on content
  • In-place editing of content
  • Threaded discussion groups
  • Control of access privileges
  • Searching of content
  • Authentication before seeing any content
  • Session control, including expiration and the signature of legal terms and conditions
  • Support community interaction through discussions
  • Simple learning curve of the content management system
  • Simple administration interface of the content management system to hand off to the client

To quote IBM on their decision to go with Drupal, “Drupal is a relative youngster compared to other content management systems (CMS). However, we got the impression the framework was well written, robust, very extensible, and seemed to have a thriving development community that was generating a lot of adoption and support.”

Here is the visual of their final system evaluations:
IBM CMS Comparison

Drupal, at its website, lists a number of ways it can be of service in a corporation, including features that enable customizable user roles and permissions, a robust security model, scalability, and the ability to configure and extend functionality to meet specific business needs.

The series of nine Drupal tutorials offered by IBM are:

So, IBM meets Drupal… and gets on handily. Makes you wonder what the next pairing might be. Could Sun chat-up Joomla? Or Oracle take a fancy to PostNuke? We'll have to wait and see.

 
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3 Reader Comments

1 | yaph — October 25, 2006 6:32 PM

I have worked with quite a few open source CMS before I discovered the power and strengths of Drupal. None of the other systems I know comes close to Drupal regarding flexibility, extensibility, robustness, and security. I hope that IBM's decision to opt for Drupal in this series of articles helps to make this CMS more popular. Drupal really deserves to be recognized by more people.

2 | Spencer — November 16, 2007 10:29 AM

This Matrix ist simply not true. Comaring Typo3 Themability and xhtml/css Features to the ones of Drupal you must say with templa Voila and Typo Script you have a Flexability you never get in Drupal even with Panel Module. I know and like the 2 systems very much, but you have to say the truth.

3 | Geshan — November 23, 2007 10:36 PM

We at Young Innovations Pvt. Ltd, Nepal (www.yipl.com.np) had recently jotted down a
"Drupal How to for Beginners" which mainly deals with setting up a Drupal website and adding, editing some content. It is based on Drupal 5.2.I've uploaded the file in the location below, hope you people benefit from it. It is 90+ pages .pdf file with step by step explanation and screen-shots. Its 5.67 MB.

I'd like to hear from you so please don't hesitate to give feedback, replying in this thread or mail me. I think the linux users will have raise questions regarding use of XAMPP in windows but being a web interface I hope it does not matter.

I hope to hear from you soon. All comments are welcome, I had posted it on Drupal Nepal and FOSS Nepal group as well. comments I got from there were encouraging. This
document is licensed under Creative Commons Attibution-NC-SA license.

Download Link at http://geshan.blogspot.com/2007/11/drupal-how-to-for-beginners-and-all.html

Geshan

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