Why Freshbrain chose Drupal -- an open source content management system.
- Content Mgmt System - ability to easily create and edit web pages, register users,
automatically create navigation structures and access control. - Community and collaboration features - like RSS, blogging, forums, polls and wikis.
- User-driven content creation - the content comes not only from you, the organization behind the web site,
but from anyone visiting the site. - Aggregation and Newsreaders - Gathering information from multiple web sites, typically via RSS.
- Categories and Community tagging - Keywords that describe the content of a web site
- Easily create content types - video, podcasts, images, projects, activities, training, tools
- Workflows for various content types - review/publish, approve/reject
- Social Networking - discover new friends or colleagues by shared interests, related skills, or a common geographic location
- Reasonable learning curve - well documented, easy to modify and extend
- Highly customizable theme engine (with CSS support )
- Open Source and Free
- Stable
- Large user and developer communities - huge community of software developers who are continually expanding
its features and making the platform stronger. - Numerous community contributed modules - modules, themes, PHP snippets and CSS snippets
- Wide selection of professionals - who can help you build or improve your Drupal site.
- Performance and Scalability
- Low overhead installation and deployment
- Integration with popular services - Google Analyics, Social bookmarking etc
Hosting and Software Stack
- Sun's Network.com
- Software Stack - Option 1
- Sun's Coolstack http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack/
- Solaris, Apache, PHP, MySQL
- Software Stack - Option 2
- Glassfish Application Server http://glassfish.dev.java.net
- Quercus - PHP on Java http://quercus.caucho.com/
- Solaris, Glassfish, Java/PHP, MySQL