University of Waterloo chooses Drupal!

In the March 4, 2010 bulletin of UW Daily News, there is tidbit:

There’s been a change in plans for the Web Content Management System project, which has been under way for some months involving information technology people from across campus. Its goal: to implement new software that will make it easier to maintain UW’s hundreds of thousands of web pages using regular web browsers. As announced last summer, the project was to be based on Red Dot, a software product from locally based Open Text Corp., which would replace software now in use such as Contribute and DreamWeaver. But Alan George, associate provost (information systems and technology), has now announced that rather than Red Dot, the new CMS for Waterloo will be based on an open-source software system called Drupal. (As Wikipedia explains, Drupal “is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites”.) Says George: “Over the past six months or so we have thoroughly investigated the Open Text product and Drupal. There have been some pilot implementations using Drupal on campus, and UW sent 20-plus people to courses offered by Open Text. These efforts revealed a large amount of information about the characteristics, capabilities and limitations of each of the systems. The project team has concluded that Drupal is a better fit for UW’s needs.” He hastens to add: “This is not a reflection in any way on Open Text’s product.”