Microsoft ships Drupal

The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more. With just a few simple clicks, Web AI will check your machine for the necessary pre-requisites, download these applications from their source location in the community, walk you through basic configuration items and then install them on your computer.

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Drupal + Oracle: Inside the OraDrup Project

Why Bring Oracle and Drupal Together?

So where does Oracle fit in? To date, Drupal has principally been a MySQL-oriented system. A very popular deployment choice for Drupal installations is the LAMP stack (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP). Of course, Drupal is equally at home running under any platform capable of hosting MySQL and PHP.

This is all well and good for the average implementation but sometimes the "M" in LAMP is not an option. Some organizations may not have the luxury of being able to incorporate another database server into their operations. In other cases, MySQL simply might not be the right solution for the task. In such circumstances, the adoption of Drupal is unlikely.

Furthermore, with Drupal having such an active developer community, it is difficult to see why it should not expand its horizons to include Oracle technology. In doing so, Drupal will become a viable option for Oracle-based developers and vice-versa. Were that to happen, it would be very exciting to see it taking advantage of or benefitting from such Oracle features as:

• Data partitioning and parallelism
• Replication and queuing technology
• Real Application Clusters
• Transparent Application Failover and other high availability features
• Fine Grained Access Control at the database level
• Automatic segment space management

Furthermore, with Oracle Database having such a huge presence, it would offer the opportunity for Drupal to gain greater exposure where, previously, it would have been overlooked.

Much has been said about Drupal's potential to support an arbitrary number of database platforms. Indeed, support for PostgreSQL is packaged alongside that for MySQL. Why, then, has there been no reported sighting of Drupal running under Oracle? Despite their good intentions, projects embarking on the path of building Oracle compatibility seem to end up in a "Bermuda Triangle." For that reason, an Oracle-based Drupal implementation has attained almost mythical status—nobody has ever seen one.

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Plain Black Corporation is pleased to announce the release of WebGUI TV

Plain Black Corporation®, maker of the open source content management system WebGUI®, is pleased to announce the release of WebGUI TV. WebGUI TV (WGTV) is a free video library containing archival footage of past WebGUI Users Conference presentations, as well as videos from other training resources. Close to 150 videos on all topics related to WebGUI are currently available, and the collection will continue to grow! WebGUI TV is available to everyone at www.webgui.tv.

Each WGTV video is placed in a “series” so users can easily search for a particular year from the WebGUI Users Conference, for WebGUI Live footage, or by topic related keyword. Most videos in the library contain free supplemental downloads ranging from PDFs of a video's corresponding presentation to full WebGUI Packages ready to deploy on a live WebGUI site.

Throughout the year, Plain Black will slowly release videos from the 2008 WebGUI Users Conference. In addition to videos posted by Plain Black, members of WebGUI's open source community can contribute their own footage by simply uploading their videos to their favorite video websites, then pasting the player code into a WGTV submission form. To learn more about WebGUI TV, read JT Smith's announcement in The Black Blog.

In 2001, Plain Black Corporation® released the first public version of WebGUI®. Today, WebGUI is one of the most popular open source content management systems available. It is downloaded thousands of times per month and is in use as an application framework in Global 1000 companies, government agencies, universities, school districts, and non-profit organizations around the world. Plain Black offers support, training, and customization of WebGUI and the technologies related to it. For more information on Plain Black and WebGUI visit www.plainblack.com and www.webgui.org.

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First Ever Joomla! Day in Switzerland

Join us in the culture-rich city of Luzern for the very first Joomla Day Switzerland on November 15, 2008. We heartily welcome Joomla users from Switzerland and the German-speaking community at large to a day of Joomla fun for all.

Top Speakers

We are pleased to announce the attendance of Joomla Development Coordinator Wilco Jansen who will be conducting an interactive session on all things Joomla. Also attending will be Ivo Apostolov from the Joom!Fish project, Yannick Gaultier from the SH404SEF project, and Angie Radtke will discuss accessibility pertaining to Joomla.

Bonus Presentation

Switzerland just wouldn't be Switzerland without a special bonus presentation. Get an early look at the new and upcoming multi-language extension Nooku, presented by the JoomlaTools team.

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