The 10 Coolest Open-Source Products Of 2009
From the launch of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, to the continued emergence of Drupal as a content management system, open source made significant strides in 2009. Established products like Firefox and OpenOffice continued to flourish, while others that have been around a while, like OpenBravo ERP and Git, took impressive steps forward. Check out 10 products that made an impact on the IT Industry this year.
1. Drupal
The Drupal content management system runs Whitehouse.gov and dozens of other high-profile Web sites. And with more than 500,000 installations to date, Drupal's success appears destined to continue. "Without a doubt, Drupal has been the runaway success story of the year," declares John Locke, principal consultant at Freelock Computing, a Seattle-based open-source consultancy. Acquia, a startup in charge of commercializing Drupal, has received more than $18 million in venture capital to date, which is testimony to the key role Drupal is playing in pushing forward the notion of the Semantic Web.
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