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The Business of Drupal
The document discusses the business opportunities around Drupal, including value-added resellers (VARs) who customize Drupal for clients, independent software vendors (ISVs) who create specialized products and services built on Drupal, and large companies who offer Drupal solutions and services. It suggests specializing in a niche, forming partnerships with companies like Acquia, growing offerings to cover more needs, and creating products and software as a service to take advantage of the Drupal market.
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The Business of Drupal
- 1. The Business ofDrupal By Robert Douglass
- 2. Advisor, Acquia Advisor,Commerce Guys Advisor, ICanLocalize Drupal Association Drupal-Initiative.de
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- 4. Platforms “big giantslabs of software that don't quite do anything out of the box, but which enable a whole world of new and interesting applications” - Joel Spolsky
- 5. Drupal is ourplatform = Platform
- 6. Value Added ResellersA value-added reseller (VAR) ... adds features to an existing product, then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. - Wikipedia
- 7. Value Added Resellers“ combines [...] components to build complete systems. For example, a VAR might take a computer chip, printer, hard drive, monitor and graphics software from different vendors, put it together, and package it as a specialized computer-aided design system.” - Allbusiness.com
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- 13. Independent Software VendorsAn ISV is a company "specializing in making or selling software, designed for mass marketing or for niche markets." - Wikipedia
- 14. Independent Software Vendors“ Specialized products generally offer higher productivity to organizations than more generalized software” - Wikipedia
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Editor's Notes
- #20 It’s good to have plenty of work to do, but did we forget along the way how we got started and why we found and chose Drupal to begin with? What happened to BUILDing websites?
- #30 San Francisco, DrupalCon, everything eventually comes Germany, so a good view into the future. Matt S., first DrupalCon, ....
- #31 Acquia has many products - I’d gladly stand here and talk about all of them, but I’m only going to focus on one. In particular because it is a new solution for people who just want a website with some basic publishing and social features, and don’t want to hire a Drupal developer to build it for them. I also want to talk about it because I think it creates some new opportunities for professionals like yourselves who build websites professionally.