Information Week has an article that looks at how success has been achieved by Drupal and Alfresco by integrating social and collaboration features into the products.

The article compares both platforms favorably to large commercial products from the likes of Microsoft and IBM and finds that businesses are frequently evaluating open source platforms along side proprietary packages and choosing based on their requirements, not on a political or ideological basis.

It’s about time we had a Drupal Camp here in San Diego. Both Karl Scheirer and I want it, and now that we’ve posted it to the groups.drupal site, a lot of other people are interested too.

Here’s the original posting: http://groups.drupal.org/node/16691

Use that node to keep track of our progress as we work to bring you a full-featured Camp here in the sunny side of California.

When users control the conversation, there is an interesting tendency for the elevation of users as experts based on contribution. If there is one thing I've learned about the Drupal community over the years, and in my years working around and in Open Source communities for years before that, it's this: contribution and presence are the basis of community capital; or, in short: contribution is social capital.

The second Bay Area Drupal Camp is next weekend at UC Berkeley and WorkHabit is proud to be sponsoring, attending, and presenting.

We’ll be giving sessions on everything from scaling to theming. And I’ll be showing off AutoPilot, our build management product.

If you’re there, we’d love it if you’d say hi. We’ll be the ones in the black WorkHabit shirts.

For the last few months here at WorkHabit we've been busily creating a new kind of hosting platform. We've taken our expertise in scaling, hosting, and managing Drupal web sites and and layered that on top of cloud computing. Our efforts have resulted in an auto-scaling web server cluster built in the cloud. And it's fully managed, from top to bottom, including the OS, the database, Drupal itself, and even your application.

Document Management has existed in many forms for decades now: Documentum, Docsys, Knowledgetree, Alfresco, and others. Most of the solutions have existed at the Enterprise level, and have had limited utility and penetration into smaller markets. A host of new Web 2.0 DMS and DAM solutions exist now, spanning from less refined Web-based systems like Flickr, Picasa, Photobucked (on the DAM side), to lightweight WEBDAV-based implementations. Open Source CMS systems like eZ Publish have had WEBDAV support for years now.

There is a lot of noise in the marketplace these days about Enterprise 2.0 and online communities. What I have been finding is that very few people or companie are attempting to answer the question "Why build an online community at ALL?"

So I got together with Jive Software's Dennis Deveny and we put together a webcast and presented it on May 15, 2008. In the webcast, we talk about how Web 2.0 technologies can be used to directly impact the top and bottom lines of any business.

I didn’t even realize that one of my favorite panel discussions on Enterprise Drupal is on Google Video.

There are some really excellent discussions in this conversation, and I tried to lay out a lot of what I’d learned in the last few years working with Enterprise companies. My chat starts at about 50:00 in, but the whole thing is worth listening to.

In the quickly lengthening history of the technology market, no strategy has been more pervasive among corporate management than the discount of original business ideas. I've heard a ton of variations on the theme, depending on which management guru you talk to, and which era you tune in on.

Examples from various successful luminaries include:

How do you find out what kind of hosting the need for your Drupal based website?

Perhaps because of the fact that we run so much Drupal based infrastructure (we have more than one data center full of Drupal boxes), a question I get asked almost daily is: what kind box do I buy for my Drupal based website?

Usually, the person asking is just getting started and the really struggling with the question of how much resources, financial and time wise, should they invest upfront, and how much should they invest to handle their ongoing growth.

It’s about time we had a Drupal Camp here in San Diego. Both Karl Scheirer and I want it, and now that we’ve posted it to the groups.drupal site, a lot of other people are interested too.

Here’s the original posting: http://groups.drupal.org/node/16691

Use that node to keep track of our progress as we work to bring you a full-featured Camp here in the sunny side of California.