Category Archives: Business Strategy

Graeme Menzies of VANOC on Planning Online Communications

By adrian | Published: February 13, 2010

“The smartest planning for online communications has to include knowing that something else is going to happen four or two or three years from now that you don’t know about yet.” – Graeme Menzies, Director of Online Communications, VANOC

Open Source Matures as a Viable Business

By adrian | Published: December 29, 2009

Acquia, the commercial open source company founded by Drupal creator, Dries Buytaert, recently released a white paper, TCO for Open Source Social Publishing, that looks at the “total cost of ownership” for open source social publishing. Reading through the paper, I can’t help but think about how much open source has matured as a viable [...]

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Drupal or WordPress: Why not both?

By adrian | Published: November 11, 2009

There’s been some growing chatter lately about what’s in store with Drupal 7. Curious to learn more, I was reading up on the Drupal 7 User Experience Project and as I scanned through the pages, I noticed something: the Drupal 7 User Experience Project site is using WordPress! This may seem innocuous at first, but [...]