webware.com — Drupal, the popular CMS / web application framework has been recognized as a 'Webware 100' aware recipient, coming in somewhere after YouTube, but still ahead of NetFlix, TypePad, StumbleUpon, and Feedburner in the voting.
Jun 18, 2007 View in Crawl 4
elebrioJun 19, 2007
WTF?
foofyJun 19, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100.html">http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100.html</a>A link to the actual contest results would have been nice. It's pretty clear that Drupal placed after WordPress and Adobe Flash. I like how the submitter dances right by that and goes on to assume that something ranking third in one category must have more votes than something with a lower ranking in a completely different category (Netflix and Stumble). That is to say, the submitter is a bit (just a bit!) of a moron.
jaconJun 19, 2007
Check the following behind the scene of The New York Observer:<a class="user" href="http://drupal.org/node/141187">http://drupal.org/node/141187</a>This is very educational
amoebaJun 20, 2007
I've worked full time as a developer using both Joomla and Drupal. I have to say I like them both though each has it's strengths and weaknesses.I do believe that Drupal has a very elegant design and excellent extensibility model.Congratulations on the award. It's well deserved.
youssifJun 20, 2007
Who else uses Drupal:www.ubuntu.com
minsightJun 20, 2007
Drupal scales poorly. Yes, there are big sites that use it, but that doesn't meant that it's efficient in its use of resources.Another minus is that, when I was using it, the developers would constantly redo the structures of the databases and source files in a way that would break backward compatibility. This wouldn't be a big problem if they developed a utility to reliably upgrade old installations. They didn't. So someone would install Drupal, and find out 6 months later that they'd have to be up to their elbows in MySQL in order to upgrade to a currently-supported version.Like Linux, Drupal has to learn that a product has to be usable by all, and not just its developers.
pureginJun 20, 2007Submitter
foofy, there is another digg for the actual webware awards. I was specifically interested that Drupal, per se, was being recognized.The winners appear not to be explicitly ranked, according to <a class="user" href="http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9728770-2.html,">http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9728770-2.html,</a> though it does appear that the ordinal position of each winner in the category is consistent with other information supplied about relative number of votes.The article states that WordPress got the most votes in the category, and that Drupal placed ahead of TypePad and Vox. I don't think that its particularly meaningful to make inferences based on such a ranking, in any case. My observation about Drupal vs. NetFlix, and StumbleUpon is admittedly a little bit of a red herring, since these last two are in different categories, but it is based on the observation that each of these (along with TypePad and FeedBurner) received less than a thousand votes. All to be taken with a large grain of salt ;)
nicklewisatxJun 20, 2007
QUOTE: "Drupal scales poorly" --Compared to what? Static HTML pages? A skin and bones PHP/MSQL page builder? I hear "it scales poorly" a lot, but I can say with certainty that any platform that offers functionality comparable to drupal is bound to run into scalability issues once it gets significant traffic. Most scalability problems are caused, in my experience, with poor usage of contributed modules, and terribly written custom code. If a site is well constructed however, it will scale to infinity so long as you've heard of concepts like query cache, sql clusters, and load balancers. Drupal has scaled fine for me even without the aforementioned weapons grade methods. My blog was once farked, metafiltered, and linked from several big publications like wired, and hundreds of other blogs. The first day of the onslaught I had upwards of 500,000 page views. This was using drupal 4.5, with page cache turned on, and on a fancy-pants 10 dollar a month shared host. The site never went down, or began to respond slowly. My host never even seemed to notice the load such an onslaught should have caused. Consider that drupal 5 is much faster, and has much more powerful caching than 4.5, I can't help but ask: Really? It scales poorly? Under what circumstance?QUOTE: "Another minus is that, when I was using it, the developers would constantly redo the structures of the databases and source files in a way that would break backward compatibility. This wouldn't be a big problem if they developed a utility to reliably upgrade old installations. They didn't."Sorry, but that is b#lls**t. We've had an upgrade utility since the release of 4.6 (2 versions, roughly 2 years ago). The drupal core has had a reliable upgrade path since I first started using drupal (that would be august of 2004).3rd party module developers can easily write upgrade hooks for their modules whenever they need to change the schema in anyway. Drupal 6 will actually offer a schema api that will even further simplify this. I understand the frustration of users who are stuck in pre-4.6 drupal installations, but to say we haven't done anything about it is b#lls**t. Furthermore, True, 3rd party contributed modules are a whole different story -- they are often left unmaintained to the dismay of users -- and we're working on finding ways to help inexperienced users navigate the hundreds of 3rd party modules, however, in the end, we have no control over the quality of 3rd party contribs over time, we can only advise users to be aware of the risk of investing in them.
jonmaclaneFeb 12, 2009
We work on Drupal.It lets oue site look more user friendly for the search engines and will receive better chances to climb up in the search engines rank statistics.<a class="user" href="http://www.prosopo.com">http://www.prosopo.com</a>
jacky2009rFeb 17, 2010
We love working on drupal, because drupal is an open source content management platform. Equipped with a powerful blend of features.<a class="user" href="http://www.synergytechservices.com/E-Biz/drupal-development.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.synergytechservices.com/E-Biz/drupal-de ...</a>