One Drupal to rule them all | Acquia: "The New York Stock Exchange is launching 30 sites on Drupal. Turner Broadcasting is migrating 80 sites to Drupal. A large consumer pharmaceuticals company might end up with over 3000 Drupal sites. Why? Because Drupal gives their IT team an agile platform to deliver new sites quickly with the breadth of capabilities to meet their needs, but broad enough in scope to serve as a web platform too."
- This was in a recent blog post by Dries on Acquia.com.
My Notes -
I've been following several Drupal job forums and feeds, and I must say the amount of activity over the past few months seems just awesome! What Dries says in his post is proof that Drupal is growing and CIO's are getting "smarter". Wish I knew some...just kidding...but not really. :)
As an example of it's growth, I'm aware that one local college has decided to "Go Drupal" with their current websites and backlog of work. They have many requests for internal websites, and there are some that will be ported to Drupal. "Go Drupal" - defined as that point in time when an organization decides that moving forward they will commit to Drupal and all new work will use Drupal. That's my definition...just made it. :)
The Eastern Iowa Drupal group recently started meeting in August and the excitement that has been seen in the group is so great to have and gets me more pumped to be working on such a great platform.
I have yet to find anyone in Cedar Rapids using Drupal, except for me of course. In Iowa City, there are 2 businesses and the University of Iowa that are using Drupal. It is growing, and it is worth it to take a look!!!
