The Drupal CMS is a very powerful open source content management system that has been used for all types of sites varying from personal blogs, enterprise, small businesses, forums, etc. However, do we know any big names out there that would use Drupal? Ultimately when researching and/or promoting it, one of the biggest questions you will always face is –“Who else uses it?” or “Does anyone in our industry uses it?”. These are big questions that you, yourself or some one else may be thinking. Surprisingly, there are many brand names out there that have been using Drupal to power their sites.
The following is a list of Big Brand names that are using Drupal:
Entertainment / Multimedia
Emmy’s – 2009 – www.emmys.com
Grammy’s – 2009 – www.grammy.com
Distribution: Pressflow
Mattel – 2009 – www.mattel.com
Sony’s My Play – 2007 – www.myplay.com
Warner Brothers Records – 2007 – www.wbr.com
Education
Duke University – 2009 – www.duke.edu
Harvard University: Harvard Science – 2007 – harvardscience.harvard.edu
MIT: Media Lab – 2009 – www.media.mit.edu
Portland State University – 2009 – www.pdx.edu
Strayer University – 2009 – www.strayer.edu
Government
Le portail interminist eriel jeunesse (French Ministry for Health, Youth and Sport) – 2008 – www.jeunes.gouv.fr
NATO: World Food Programme – 2009 – www.wfp.org
New York Senate – 2009 – www.nysenate.gov
Portail du Gouvernement (French Government Portal ) – 2009 – www.gouvernement.fr
U.S. Dept. of Commerce – 2010 – www.commerce.gov
White House – October 2009 – www.whitehouse.gov
Related Article: http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/whitehousegov-goes-drupal
Publishing
BBC Focus – www.bbcfocusmagazine.com
BBC also has several other sites that also utilize Drupal.
CNN Go – 2009 – www.cnngo.com
InfoWorld – 2009 – www.infoworld.com
Look Magazine – 2010 – www.look.co.uk
Linux Journal – 2005 – www.linuxjournal.com
Popular Science – 2008 – www.popsci.com
The Industry Standard – 2008 – www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard
Technology
Intel Atom Developer – 2010 – appdeveloper.intel.com/en-us
Nvidia – 2010 – tegradeveloper.nvidia.com/tegra
Symbian – 2010 – www.symbian.org
Ubuntu – 2007 – www.ubuntu.com
ViaSat –2008 – www.viasat.com
So, there are many big brand names out there that utilize Drupal as their CMS platform of choice for their websites. Drupal is being used in many industries and in many categories, as you can see from the sites mentioned just how versatile and how dynamically it has been utilized. Now you can answer those questions and provide some great examples of Drupal in action .
Helpful Resources to find more Drupal sites
- Dries Buytaert – Founder and lead developer for Drupal.
www.buytaert.net - Drupal Sites – Provides a list of sites that are using/featuring Drupal.
www.drupalsites.net - Drupal – Main Drupal site also features some information on Drupal sites that are launched.
www.drupal.org
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