Drupal News; What is Happening Out There?

As I have been working on my Drupal site, I have been contemplating how to add extra content that is related to the curriculum of this course. One way I have managed to expand upon my learning, is by reading some online news articles about Drupal. It is important to understand why we as students are learning how to create sites using Drupal. Looking at news articles helps put things in perspective.

This article on Wired Magazine's website talks about how Ebay is switching to a Drupal system. I highly recommend Wired Magazine to anyone who is interested in technology, or knowing cutting edge information before anyone else.

One quote from the article really rang a bell for me, in terms of things we are learning in class. The article says, "Drupal is a “content management system,” or CMS, a platform for managing the operation of a website, but it was designed so that the open source community could easily build modules that expand its set of tools, and with over 10,000 modules now on offer, the platform can compete across myriad software markets."

This is why Drupal is used by so many giant companies, like Ebay. There are so many possibilities to how you can use the content management system.