A Caution About Drupal as a Social Software Platform | Linux Today

A Caution About Drupal as a Social Software Platform

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 14, 2008

“The open source package Drupal is one of the few social
publishing platforms built on top of a longstanding Web CM (WCM)
system. It has a strong foundation with a very flexible taxonomy
system which–along with thousands of 3rd-party modules–enables
you to assemble social publishing applications.

“However, these modules could be your biggest problem as well
because many times, module upgrades do not keep pace with Drupal
upgrades. Even though Drupal has released version 6.2, many of the
more popular modules are still on 5.x…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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