White House Now Using Open Source Content Management
Open Source technologies continue to gain ground as a viable web content management alternative, made evident by high profile companies in the private sector who have recently adopted Open Source technologies including Sony Music and FedEx. Recently, the White House announced that www.whitehouse.gov is now running the popular open-source Web publishing system Drupal.
From the Associated Press
“A programming overhaul of the White House’s Web site has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it’s a snooze — you won’t notice a thing…” read more
From CNET
“There’s a lot of buzz today on the Obama Administration’s decision to run WhiteHouse.gov on Drupal, the popular open-source Web publishing system. Given the U.S. federal government’s widespread adoption of open source, however, the amazing thing is that it took so long…” read more
Still think Open Source isn’t a viable content management system alternative?
