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Screencast Illustrates Useful Open Source Search Running with Drupal CMS

Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal content management system and co-founder of Acquia, which provides commercial support and services for Drupal, has an interesting screencast posted on his blog. It illustrate some of the services that Acquia provides for sites that run Drupal, (as OStatic does), and features the company's Bryan House demonstrating search functionality for use with Drupal, based on Apache Solr. If you're running Drupal or are interested in running it, the screencast is worth watching.

We've covered Acquia several times. In his screencast, Bryan House sums up the company's focus on support for Drupal by saying "what Red Hat is to Linux, we are to Drupal." However, many people don't realize that Acquia also provides services and extensions for Drupal. House's screencast (with RedMonk) shows Apache Solr-based search services running on a site focused on cycling called Velocity.

One of the reasons the screencast caught my eye is that while OStatic runs on Drupal, we use Lucene open source search technology, which gives us good results. This points to one of the best aspects of Drupal--how modular it is. If you've never tried Drupal, you can try a demo here. It's growing very quickly among open source content management systems, and the Acquia screencast illustrates how extensible it is.
 

• Drupal
• Acquia
• Solr

by Todd Vessel on Jun. 19, 2009

This sort of plug-n-play capability is what makes Drupal far superior to everything else in the market today. Its probably one of the best open source CMS implementations out there with Joomla being a close second...

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