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What is Drupal?
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Drupal is an open source modular framework and content management system (CMS) with a proven history of building powerful web applications that are stable, scalable, extensible and easy to use. It is standards-compliant and strives for clean code with a small footprint
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Is Drupal Appropriate for the Enterprise?
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Drupal is a robust framework that has proven highly scalable and sufficiently flexible for enterprise deployments. Large government sites run on Drupal, as do mission critical sites in a variety of industries. WhiteHouse.gov, FastCompany.com, and TheEconomist.com are built in Drupal. For a comprehensive listing, visit Drupal founder Dries Buytaert’s list.
Further, a memorandum issued by the Department of Defense in 2009 makes it clear that open source software is reliable and secure, and the thriving Drupal community ensures that the platform will continue to innovate.
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Why should my company use it?
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Drupal is based on the open source philosophy of collaborative PHP software development and is licensed under the GPL. Drupal is itself open source and builds on and supports other open source projects. Specifically, Drupal is coded in the open source scripting language PHP and supports as primary data sources the open source database formats MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Drupal is designed to be customized by overriding the core or by adding modules. Achieve Internet specializes in customized Drupal development and the utlization of more than 500+ contributed modules. Additionally, our experience in the implementation of enterprise level Drupal sites has made us a leader in Performance and Scalability.
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What experience does Achieve have with Drupal?
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Achieve Internet's team of in-house developers and designers is considered one of the largest drupal development firms in the country. With 98% of our development work done using the Drupal Framework we have earned a reputation for our expertise within the community.
Since our inception in 1998 our goal has always been focused around building long-standing partnerships. We have had the opportunity to bring our development expertise into patnerships with Experian, ABC/Disney, NBC Universal, LifetimeTV, Sony BMG, VMware, Lime.com, and FastCompany. For more examples about our work with Drupal please vist our tech corner or our portfolio section.
