Industry Standard using Drupal
The Industry Standard, aka thestandard.com, is using Drupal. The Industry Standard features news and analysis that covers emerging technologies and companies, venture funding, acquisitions, site launches, and other developments in the internet space. This system is built as a prediction market, intersected with a reputation-based social network. The site is part of the IDG network, which includes sites like Computerworld, Infoworld, JavaWorld.com, Macworld, PC World, and more.
Like most big Drupal sites, they use CCK, Views, memcache, and a master-slave database configuration. Two noteworthy items are the fact that they use Apache Solr for search, and Mollom as their spam deterrent.
Another noteworthy item is that they do an excellent job keeping their Drupal system up to date. The site relaunched in Drupal around March and they're now running 5.11-dev.
September 9, 2008 - 15:05Oh wow, memcache and Apache Solr! I recently boosted the team of maintainers for the ApacheSolr module to 5 people and we had a big strategy meeting. You can see the awesome results in the commit log: http://drupal.org/project/cvs/204268
Getting better all the time =)
September 9, 2008 - 18:51Does it mean that Drupal is the "de facto" standard :-)
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