Drupal’s advantages for running enterprise web sites are well established by such companies as FedEx, The Economist, and The White House. But many who would like to use it hesitate because they fear loss of assets now managed by their current site’s platform, or expect the procedure to transfer those assets to be prohibitively difficult.

The explicit purpose of the OGD is to improve citizen interaction and engagement. Realizing the intentions behind the directive will require significant website innovation for many departments and agencies. Many public sector sites today are based on legacy, static web technologies. What content is available is often out of date, and citizens have limited, if any, ability to interact.

More and more, Open Source presents not only a cost alternative, but an innovation alternative, to proprietary enterprise software products.

This white paper provides a brief introduction about why social-style software is important to organizations, and why open source Drupal is the best enterprise social software solution. If, in addition to this, you ‘re looking for information on the cost and value of Social Publishing, please get and read Acquia’s white paper entitled “TCO for Open Source Social Publishing"

This paper presents the results of performance benchmarks for comparing several common PHP runtime environments and configurations. The application used for benchmarking is Drupal, the open source social publishing platform. Tested runtime environments included plain PHP, Zend Server (www.zend.com/products/server), and opensource optimizers, such as APC and WinCache.
For the purpose of this benchmark, a simple Drupal-based website was set up and tested in various commonly
used Windows and Linux configurations.