
I am an associate professor
and graduate coordinator in the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication
at James Madison University.
I am also a writer, and writing, and web design consultant. More
Here is the news article
from, you guessed it, the Drupal site. At the risk of sounding like
someone whose enthusiasm for open source content management and web
design platforms is off the charts, I am guessing that whoever is
responsible for White House's IT needs, might have seen something in
Drupal than more traditional web packages did not have. To
contextualize this a bit, Blackboard had been on a blitz crieg arguing
that ope source systems are just "not as secure" as commercial ones.
Well, I think they probably had a thought or two about security over at
the WH when making this move.