White House Website Switches To Open Source 219
Falc0n writes "WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software. Dries Buytaert reflected on this, adding: 'this is a clear sign that governments realize that Open Source does not pose additional risks compared to proprietary software, and furthermore, that by moving away from proprietary software, they are not being locked into a particular technology, and that they can benefit from the innovation that is the result of thousands of developers collaborating on Drupal.'"
Re:Great... (Score:5, Funny)
Now they're locked in to PHP.
It's part of Obama's economic recovery program. Just think how many IT jobs this will create: maintenance, debugging, modifications, and security. Maybe we could have a Slashdot poll on who will pwn the website first. I think it'll be the Chinese as payback for the tariffs on tires.
PHP based? (Score:2, Funny)
I wish they used something Python based:
def askPresidentQuestion(q):
if president == "Bush":
misSpeak()
elif president == "Obama":
pass
Re:Something fishy. (Score:5, Funny)
In other words, what did they switch from.
They switched from capitalism to communism, silly.
Screw that! (Score:4, Funny)
I make my own fucking ELECTRONS!
Re:High profile target and popular CMS' (Score:4, Funny)
If your security beliefs are based on Googling " exploit" I hope you're not in charge of anything important.
Re:High profile target and popular CMS' (Score:5, Funny)
You're right. Block port 80, that'll stop 'em.
Re:High profile target and popular CMS' (Score:4, Funny)
Security isn't exactly a priority for drupal either, it's almost added as an afterthought.
not any more!!
Re:High profile target and popular CMS' (Score:3, Funny)
You're assuming an unusually high level of competence in government IT departments.
Re:High profile target and popular CMS' (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, it's www.whitehouse.gov for the Obama administration. I'll let it slide though; as long as you don't confuse it with whitehouse.com - not linkified for a very special reason....
Re:Screw that! (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, why are you being so negative?
Re:Or just a big ass computer. (Score:3, Funny)
I work for the government, and uh, bullshit.
Re:Screw that! (Score:2, Funny)
Do you know how fucking hard it is to make POSITRONS?
Afghans Applaud use of Open Source! (Score:0, Funny)
Those who haven't had a hand or two blown off by Obama's cluster bombs, that is...
Re:Why CMS (Score:3, Funny)
I clearly remember the days before CMS and it looked like this
Ha! The planetarium scheduler for the the school I work at has an HTML file she edits in Word to create the current month's calendar. This file has been used for some 2-3 years. Pulling it up right now, it is 682 KB in size and has over 6,000 lines of CSS at the top of the document. Here's a snippet:
The actual body of the document is about 400 lines of the most awful HTML table markup the universe has ever seen.
To see this file in its entirety is a most humbling experience.