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Community, OSL and Sun Jump to Drupal's Rescue

Posted by Zonk on from the feel-the-love dept.

Robert Douglass writes "Drupal asked for help and received a major dose of it. Sun Microsystems has stepped up and donated a Sun Fire V20z server which will be the backbone of Drupal's new server architecture at the Open Source Lab. Furthermore, over $10,000 in donations were collected in a matter of a couple days (thanks to all the people who responded to the previous /. post!), plus thousands more in pledges from groups like Apress and CivicSpaceLabs... looks like the community loves Drupal!"

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  1. Re:New /. Feature? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Remind me what Drupal is again given there isn't an obvious link to a "What is Drupal?" page.

    Go to Google.com, type in "Drupal". Welcome to the Internets. :-/

  2. In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Drupal's new Sun Fire V20z has suffered a meltdown due to a /.ing.

  3. Re:New /. Feature? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's google? Do you have a link?

  4. Re:not in place yet? by Black+Perl · · Score: 4, Funny

    either the new horsepower hasn't been put in place yet, or they need more money to buy better machines ;) (or optimise the software, duh)

    or maybe it got a sudden bump of popularity somehow... can't quite think of what it might be...

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    bp
  5. Re:New /. Feature? by LWATCDR · · Score: 5, Funny

    Drupal http://www.drupal.org/ is a content management system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_sy stem and runs on a computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer. It is written in PHP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP which you can read more about here http://www.php.nt/.

    Slashdot has now become "News for wannabe nerds".

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    See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
  6. Re:New /. Feature? by AddressException · · Score: 2, Funny

    www.php.nt eh?

    Your sar-chasm has just opened wide and swallowed you whole!