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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. Tim Bray by zocle · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Its worth noting this entry from Tim Bray:
    http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/07/14/Drup al-Server
    It seems that he deserves some credit for starting the ball rolling.
    A nice comment in the article:
    What we have here is an ecosystem. Drupal has a problem, the community notices, Slashdot broadcasts, we help them out, a nice piece of infrastructure is strengthened, the tide rises and all our boats float a little higher.
  2. Re:Opinions on Drupal by blazerw11 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Drupal is very easy to customize. We turned it into a really cool location based community now complete with Google Maps. A place where you can share cool (or interesting, or weird) locations related to almost any interest.

    Then, you can take them with you on your handheld.

    --
    A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James