Drupal Founder visit

Visit by Dries Buytaert at Drupal Meetup

1.0 in 15/01/2001, started as a discussion forum

39% of edu running Drupal

Community

• open source
• faster than proprietary software
  • integration with new services

Platform

• one company runs many websites
  • ecommerce
  • event site
  • micro site
  • blogging
• scalability

Cloud

• cloud model eases adoption
• SaaS - Drual Gardens
• Scale vs Complexity
  • low scale/complexity - SaaS
  • high scale/complexity - PaaS

Evolution