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Drupal is one of the best of breed content management systems (CMSs) out there: if your site is complex and needs to be updated regularly, you should be looking at Drupal. It's great at connecting people and communities online and it's open source: get organized, get connected, get Drupalized. Foreign Policy could have chosen any platform for organizing and presenting their blogs: they chose Drupal.

Drupal is running some great sites, Warner Brother's Records is the latest high profile site to make the switch to Drupal. Drupal also powers Air America Radio, The Onion, Next Billion, and the highly respected Foreign Policy Blog, to name a few. Vermont sites running Drupal include Vermont Commons.

This site is run on Drupal and experiments with different Drupal functionalities and pieces. The look of the site may change over time and different features may pop in or out as they are tested.

Drupal bills itself as "community plumbing." Drupal is a great tool to present content with regular updates and allows community input to a site. Drupal manages and updates dynamic sites and facilitates interaction between users and the site. Drupal helps make a site the online focus of a community.

An important feature of any solution is its ease of use. A great system with lots of features that confuses users isn't a great system. IBM notes this when comparing Open Source CMS solutions. We keep this in mind constantly and listen to clients and end users. Simplicity, ease of access to information and intuitive structure often trump new features, more add ons and glitz.

IBM evaluated a number of content management systems recently in their Open Source Developer Series before deciding on Drupal for their collaborative web site implementation. They stacked up, compared and test drove Drupal, Mambo, Ruby on Rails, Typo3, Movable Type, Word Press and Text Pattern.