In case you didn't catch it, on Oct. 27 Chris Wilson posted a very ignorant article on Slate criticizing the Obama administration's choice of Drupal for whitehouse.gov (the title is "Why running the White House Web site on Drupal is a political disaster waiting to happen" - but I won't be linking to it here, it doesn't deserve a link). Anyone who knows Drupal will read the article and feel that he's just making stuff up. The article is a big "huh?!" His comments have no correlation to an actual experience with Drupal and the Drupal community!
That said, unfortunately there are non-technical decision makers in the world who are reading the article and telling their web developers to stop using Drupal immediately. This happened to a friend of mine recently. They aren't really to blame - if you don't know anything about Drupal, the article might sound well thought out.
I want to help my friend out: does anyone know of good counter-articles to this post? I've seen plenty of great counter-discussions that are geared towards those of us who use Drupal, so that's not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for articles, published in a reputable environments that non-technical decision makers will recognize, and that non-technical people will understand.
The only one I know of at the moment is a really good one from Conor McNamara:
http://www.databasepublish.com/blog/messengers-errors-chris-wilsons-flaw...
Please post any others that are out there?
Comments
InformationWeek published a
InformationWeek published a response, WhiteHouse.gov Drupal Detractors Get Buggy.
This came up in the Boston group, too: http://groups.drupal.org/node/32766
that's a good one
Thank you for linking to it, and to the Boston group's discussion!
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positive articles on drupal
Drupal wins Best PHP Open Source Software 2009 Packt Publishing CMS report (also won in 2008):
http://cmsreport.com/content/2009/11/2009-best-open-source-php-cms-drupa...
http://gadgetopia.com/post/5957
http://tips.webdesign10.com/drupal/about-drupal-311.html
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page11752.cfm
http://www.successideaweb.com/cms/comparison-content-management-system
John Dvorak from pc magazine rates it as Best Free Software in 2007:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2090961,00.asp
Comparison of Drupal and Joomla: Drupal better for Extensibility and Large Sites
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/drupal-vs-joomla-which-cms-is-best-00...
Examples of Drupal Sites:
http://socialcmsbuzz.com/45-drupal-sites-which-you-may-not-have-known-we...
webdevnews.com top 10 Open Source CMS Lists Drupal as #1
http://webdevnews.net/2008/09/the-top-10-open-source-content-management-...
Another Top 10 list with Drupal #1:
http://graphicalerts.com/top-free-open-source-content-management-systems/
Tim O'Reilly's article is a
Tim O'Reilly's article is a good one.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/whitehouse-switch-drupal-opensource.html