[support] Drupal for University use

[John Callahan]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for information about 
Drupal for university use.  My presentation last Friday was very well 
received and, from my estimation, Drupal may be in the lead compared to 
other open source CMS solutions.  There are even a few groups using 
SharePoint that are now asking questions about Drupal possibilities.  
That is definitely a good sign!  Thanks again for your help.

- Jhn




John Callahan wrote:
> The University I work for is looking at various CMS solutions for 
> several web needs, such as their primary websites, for 
> colleges/department/research centers, for social networks, for student 
> organizations, maybe even for individual student web sites.  The idea is 
> for the central IT group to host our primary sites and sites for smaller 
> groups without IT experience... and to support others on campus who want 
> to run their own servers/sites/databases.   I have put together a few 
> smaller Drupal 5 sites and have enjoyed my experience so far.  So, I 
> making a presentation to our Web CMS committee this Friday.   (I believe 
> they're also looking at Joomla, Plone, and a few commercial options; and 
> we are testing Sakai for course management.)
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> I'm putting together the basics (basic architecture and IT requirements, 
> pros and cons of Drupal, list of major Drupal web sites particularly 
> academic sites) but I'd like to know if anyone else has done the same. 
> What kind of feedback did you get?   Are there are pertinent points not 
> obvious to the beginning Drupal user (such as myself) that may be worth 
> mentioning? 
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> Scalability is also an issue.  I don't know the traffic statistics but 
> there will be a wide range of applications and volume; from our basic 
> informational pages to social networks run by faculty/staff to small 
> research groups.   I've read on a few sites that Drupal does not scale 
> well to high traffic sites, such as 15M+ hits/month or so.  However, 
> those references are a bit out-dated and I know The Onion, MTV UK, and 
> others receive much higher traffic than we would.
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> Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks!
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> - John
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