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Drupal Grows in 2009 - Recap

From Drupal founder Dries 2009 recap, read more.

Many big name sites switched to Drupal in 2009. In the media / entertainment market, some of the names include:

• Virgin, Slate, Monthy Python and Lucas Arts
• Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton and Robbie Williams
• Edipresse, Infoworld, IFRA
• Grammys, Emmys
• Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Australian Broadcast Company, BBC and CNN as well as Reuters

In the media an entertainment market, Drupal seems to be the go-to choice when selecting a CMS. But Drupal traditionally has a big footprint in the Not for Profit / Government and education sector:

• Human Rights watch, World Food Programme
• Obama, New York state senate, the French government, the Dutch government , the Australian Prime Minister and the British Government
• Duke University, Strayer University, Portland University, MIT, Stanford University and Harvard

This impressive lists is complemented with lots of enterprises switching to Drupal. This list include Symentic, Nokia, AHOLD, Randstad, Sony Ericsson, Mattel, Rackspace, AT&T, FUJI film and even Google!

Drupal is in fact "running the Internet" with Linux Foundation, JAVA.net and even the Internet Systems Consortium all switching to Drupal in 2009.

But by far the biggest news that no-one predicted in 2008 was the Whitehouse going Drupal!