The White House website has now moved over to an Open Source platform to make the system more robust and more secure - and more open. The President's website is now using Red Hat Linux as operating system and the classic combination of Apache web server and MySQL database. The system also uses the Apache Solr search engine and the JavaScript library jQuery. The PHP-based Drupal has been chosen as the CMS.
The White House website has not changed its appearance - all the changes has happened below the surface. The switch to Open Source is not just about technology. In an interview with
the Huffington Post it is implied that the administration also wants to send a message of openness and transparency by switching to Open Source.
Source:
http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/whitehousegov-goes-drupal
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