Winning OpenSource Frameworks in Web 2.0 When I started computing more than a decade ago I remember it took me weeks to learn a new program for self-expression, calculation or collaboration. Today it's fun, it takes me about five minutes total, it doesn't require any skills and within seconds I can take part in a worldwide distributed live-communication.

In an enterprise employees usually are organized in different roles around issues. Issues are identified during meetings, in conferences and discussions, then resolved between the meetings. Complex workgroups often require more than just a blog, they require customizations, document storage, discussion groups, conference scheduling, session management, security, ease of use and beyond.

The open source community provides various tools that offer a useful environment for complex Web 2.0 applications and can help an organization to

• take advantage of the new social and workplace trends
• lower costs and improve functionality
• embrace innovative new products, services and applications
• increase knowledge and capability

I found one of the finest frameworks in Drupal based on LAMP made to meet today's real world customer needs and to interact with other software tools such as MySQL, PHP, CSS and AJAX tools like DOJO, PROTOTYPE, RICO or SCRIPTACULOUS. Most of them are industry supported and are recommended because they usually provide a higher quality than your own, offer established developer and user communities and are supported by IDE's. Here's a video about what's new in Drupal 4.7, provided by a Drupal community member:

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