Dries Buytaert

Eclipse, the Open Source IDE/framework originally from IBM, is using Drupal for Eclipse Live:

Eclipse Live is your source of multi-media material about Eclipse projects and Eclipse-based products. Register for a live webinar or browse and view webinars and podcasts from our extensive library.

The German division of Discovery Channel used Drupal to launch their new community website at http://discoveryclub.de/. Wunderbar!

For more than a year, The Onion, a fake news site, has been using Drupal. They have millions of visitors a day, and probably have one of the most popular Drupal sites in the world (not to mention one of the funniest Drupal sites in the world).

While that is a great testament for Drupal, no one really knew who built The Onion, and every once in a while that topic came up amongst us Drupal developers.

Well, not anymore! Yesterday, we gave them a surprise visit and stopped by their office in San Francisco. We met with Michael Greer, Director of Web Development, who promptly took us out for lunch. We ended up talking about performance and scalability over Greek food in the park.

So without further ado, one of the Drupal faces behind The Onion:

The website of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic is now using Drupal. The concept and design work was done by Internet Architects, the implementation itself by dotProjects. Another Belgian Drupal site!

Belgium's biggest gaming site, 9lives (formerly known as games.telenet.be) relaunched using Drupal. They have 275,000 users and serve 500,000 page views a day. For their forums, they still use vBulletin though.

TechCrunch reports that the Grateful Dead website is about to be relaunched as a Drupal website:

The new version of Dead.net was created on the Drupal content management platform and features extensive archives cataloging Grateful Dead history, songs, photos, memorabilia, and shows, indexed and searchable by tags. Dead users will be able to participate in forums, upload their own photos, and bookmark concerts and shows they have attended. Fans will also be treated to exclusive free mp3 show downloads.

(Via Bert Boerland.)

Forbes just launched a video-sharing site built with the GoingOn platform, which uses a modified Drupal at its core. Check out the YouTube of Corporate America at http://officepranks.forbes.com.