The White House website has undergone by a subtle reform this weekend. Nothing happened in the visual area of the site, however, the system of content management has changed: for the open source Drupal.

The move was made thanks to the Barack Obama team’s media, who wanted a development environment more flexible for the White House on the Internet. The company Acquia, a specialist in the implementation of the Drupal system, had made the transition, aided by its founder, Dries Buytaert, one of the programmers who created the management system.

Among other things, this helps the Drupal developer community, which believes that the seal of approval from the White House is reason for pride.

Drupal is a modular framework and a system of content management (CMS) written in PHP. Just as the more modern management systems, Drupal lets you create and organize content, manipulating the appearance, automate administrative tasks, and set permissions and roles to users and developers.

Being developed in PHP, Drupal is independent of any operating system, however requires an HTTP server, supports PHP and a server database to work. Drupal is commonly described as a Framework Content Management, as well as offering the basic features of a CMS it also implements a robust set of APIs and features a modular structure that facilitates the development of more extensive modules.

Via: Tech President.