Monday, June 23, 2014

What is Drupal ?

1. Drupal is a free open source software package.


2. Drupal allows to organize, manage and publish content, with variety of customization.


3. Drupal is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License(or "GPL"), which means 

anyone is free to download it and share it with others


4. Drupal Community - 630,000+ users and developers


5. Drupal Project's Principles - Modular and extensible , Quality Coding, Standards-based, Low resource 

demands, Open source, Ease of use, Collaboration


6. Drupal is web-based, which means it is compatible with all operating systems.

7. Drupal is written in the PHP programming language

8. Drupal's Original Author - Dries Buytaert

9. Drupal is a Content Management System (CMS)

10. Drupal was first released in January 2001

11. Drupal supports many languages

12. Drupal's standard release is known as drupal core

13. Drupal has more than 30,000 contributed modules


References
https://www.drupal.org/about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal