This presentation discusses the power of community development, open source as a disruptive force in the market, and enterprise success stories with Drupal.

1. Software Libre & Drupal
Bryan House
Vice President, Product Marketing
Acquia
@bryanhouse on Twitter
#avanza2012

2. Drupal

4. It is not about the bits
It is all about the people

9. * Yes, that is a Drupal sticker
No, it is not Dries!

11. Only Drupal can get away with wearing
blue spandex in public.
Also, no one is getting paid to do this.

17. Community can help make the difference between this and ...

18. Drupal today
800,000+ community members
17,000+ developers
15,000+ modules
300,000+ downloads/month
1.5M Drupal-powered websites
55 supported languages
FREE

19. Overnight successes are years in the making
http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsgreg/446061432/

20. Meet Dries Buytaert
• founded Drupal
• co-founded Acquia
• co-founded Mollom
• President Drupal Association
• likes photography
• holds a PhD in CS

21. Way back in1999 ...
Yep, that’s Dries

22. Drupal 1.0.0 released
on January 15, 2001
Today, drop.org announces the release of Drupal 1.00 after an
extensive period of testing. Drupal is a full-featured content
management/discussion engine using Apache/PHP/MySQL and suitable
to setup a news-driven community or portal site similar to
kuro5hin.org and slashdot.org. Current features include discussion
forums, web-based administration, theme support, an open submission
queue, content management, a modularized design, PHP sessions, user
management with access control and username/profanity/hostname
filters, error logging, a public diary module, an affiliate site module,
backend/headline generation (RSS/RDF) and much more.

23. 2003 - Drupal 4.1

24. The very first DrupalCon started in Antwerp
30 Drupal developers
Antwerp, 2005

25. 800 Drupal developers
Boston, 2008

26. 1400 Drupal developers
Washington, 2009

27. 2700+ Drupal developers
San Francisco, 2010
Moscone center

28. 1500+ Drupal Developers
Copenhagen, 2010

29. 3,200 people at the “Drupal tower”
DrupalCon Chicago 2011

30. From astronauts in space...

31. ... to artists in flight

32. From global personalities...

33. ...to global causes

34. From global institutions...

35. ... to local information

36. From global communities...

37. ... to local institutions

38. From global brands...

39. ... to local ones, too

40. Covering everything from news...

41. ... to finance...

42. ... to politics...

43. ... and the Olympics

44. ... and 1,500,000+ other sites
See http://www.drupalshowcase.com for more examples

45. Why Drupal?

46. Is your CMS situation a jungle?

47. One organization often has many websites

50. Downside of proprietary CMS products
Vendor lock-in
Slow to innovate
Hard to find talent
Security
Cost/ROI

51. =
51

52. Open Source is a better way

53. Why Drupal is winning in the enterprise
Flexibility
& Freedom

54. Drupal is flexibility
There is a great deal of (administrative) overhead
associated with customizing, testing and deploying
proprietary software

55. Drupal is freedom
1. Freedom to run the program
2. Freedom to study the program
3. Freedom to modify the program
4. Freedom to re-distribute the program

56. Drupal lowers costs

57. Why Drupal is winning in the enterprise
Flexibility
& Freedom
Innovation

58. Open Source is a development model

59. Drupal is innovation
Open Source
Collaboration
Community
Innovation

60. With community driven innovation, you get...
quantity

61. quality

62. faster

63. Technically superior

64. Why Drupal is Winning in the Enterprise
Flexibility
& Freedom
Innovation
Ecosystem

65. Drupal is an ecosystem
architects, developers, testers, designers, writers, users, partners
65

66. The platform with the best ecosystem wins
Ecosystem
Platform Platform

67. Robust ecosystem = choice
67

68. Why Drupal is winning in the enterprise
Flexibility
& Freedom
Platform Innovation
Ecosystem

69. Drupal is a platform

70. Drupal scales

71. Drupal is modular

74. Drupal: ‘AND’ not ‘OR’

75. Standardization in media and entertainment
A
BDrupalD
C
E F / WordPressI
Drupal G H
2005
2012

76. Johnson & Johnson

77. New York Stock Exchange / Euronext

78. Florida Hospital

79. Why Drupal is winning in the enterprise
Cloud Flexibility
& Freedom
Platform
Innovation
Ecosystem

80. Drupal is

81. Cloud delivery models
Internal IT
SaaS Resources
Internal IT
Resources
Internal IT
PaaS Resources
Internal IT
Resources
IaaS
Internally Hosted

82. No such thing as one website

83. No such thing as one website

84. [scale]
Product
Sites
Corporate
Sites
“Marketing”
Sites
[complexity & longevity]

85. PaaS delivers flexibility
PaaS

86. SaaS offers agility
SaaS
PaaS

87. Each organization needs a mix
Microsite Microsite
Microsite Microsite Microsite SaaS
Microsite Microsite
Corp-com Intranet
Internal site
Hosting
Extranet
Community
Product site platform
PaaS
Main website

88. product portfolio
Microsite Microsite
Microsite Microsite Microsite
Microsite Microsite
Corp-com Intranet
Internal site
Hosting
Extranet
Community
Product site platform
Main website

89. Traditional SaaS
Pros Cons
Rapid start :-( Vendor lock-in
Scalable, reliable :-( Limited flexibility
Secure :-(Limited customization
Pay as you go :-( Difficult to migrate

90. OpenSaaS = Freedom
Microsite Microsite
Microsite Microsite Microsite SaaS
Microsite Microsite
Corp-com Intranet
Internal site
Hosting
Extranet
Community
Product site platform
PaaS
Main website

91. OpenSaaS = Freedom
SaaS
Internal
Hosting
PaaS

92. Open
Traditional SaaS
Pros
Pros Cons
Rapid start :-( Vendor lock-in
com plete
Scalable, reliable :-( Limited flexibility
o:-( n ar
pe chitecture
Secure Limited customization
seamless
Pay as you go :-( Difficult to migrate

93. Drupal can bring freedom to the Cloud

94. Why Drupal is winning in the enterprise
Cloud Flexibility
& Freedom
Platform
Innovation
Ecosystem

95. Thank You
Contact:
Bryan House | bryan@acquia.com | @bryanhouse
#avanza2012