IBM.com offers a series of articles following the IBM Internet Technology Group as the team designs, develops and deploys a community website utilizing the best of Open Source technologies.

These articles are meant to offer insight into the development process of complex websites, and offer key comparisons and recommendations as the team describes how and why they decided to use Drupal as the platform of choice for complex web applications.

Here at Avenue Web Media we have chosen Drupal as our development platform of choice after comparing it to just about every other platform and CMS available.

Drupal is an Open Source Content Management System (CMS), designed for power and flexibility. Considered by many as the most important platform for the PHP programming language, Drupal has a large fan-base of professional developers that use the software for all sorts of commercial projects, and often contribute to extend Drupal with their own work.