Drupal a Visionary in Gartner's Social Software Magic Quadrant

In November 2009, analysts from Gartner added Drupal to the the 'Visionaries' section of Gartner's Magic Quadrant. This moves Drupal from a Niche Player into the Visionaries quadrant because its open source model drives adoption and popularity, as well as services such as Acquia providing enterprise support.

This places Drupal next to Google and other big social software players in workplace. Drupal's place is not just a number on a graph, however. It has seen adoption by some very big players, including its recent debut running the White House's website. The White House New Media team can be seen discussing the White House implementation at lullabot.com, where they give more information about what was involved in the project.

Drupal has also seen college-wide adoption among educational institutions and universities such as Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Amherst College, and many others, including Educause. Portland State University classifies their website as an enterprise system, as their website currently runs over 120 departments using Drupal.

With features such as RDFa, OpenID, and nearly anything else you can imagine among its 4,400 modules, Drupal is definitely reaching for the stars.