WhiteHouse.gov goes Drupal!

Quoted from TechPresident:

WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software, as the AP alluded to in its reporting several minutes ago.

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Dries Buytaert, the credited father of Drupal, also wrote on his blog about the process of working on the WhiteHouse.gov website. His company, Acquia, was brought on as a consultant on the site implementation.

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This is truly a big day for Drupal, and the Open Source community as a whole. While Drupal has been represented in other government agency websites like the Department of Defense, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, and the General Service Administration having representation at the very top level of the Government sends a very clear message that Open Source and Community contributed programming can be a powerful and trustworthy source.