Drupal is an open source content management system that can be used to develop a variety of Web sites: personal; corporate; community portals like discussion forums and social networking Web sites; and complex applications like e-Commerce and intranet. The Drupal CMS enables Web editors to easily publish and manage content appearing on the sites.

Drupal is written using the PHP scripting language and is available under the GNU public license. It supports a wide range of operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, BSD, Windows and Mac OSX, etc.

Drupal is based on extensible and modular architecture. Various plug-in modules and components can be easily integrated with it to enhance its basic functions. Customized modules that provide additional/enhanced features not available with Drupal can be developed and integrated with the solution.

The OST team is expert at developing Drupal-based Web applications. Keeping Drupal as a base, we also develop custom modules that can be integrated to provide customized solutions.

Drupal Features

Drupal has many built-in features:

Browser-Based Interfaces: Drupal provides browser-based admin interfaces that can be used to manage a Web site as well as publish and organize page content.

Themes: A library of template themes enables layouts customized to client preferences.

Extensions: A wide variety of extensions are available that can be integrated with the basic Drupal setup in order to provide enhanced and advanced functions such as discussion forums, blogs, shopping carts, podcasting, photo galleries, etc.

We have over eight year's experience with PHP  serving over 100 satisfied customers. With PHP we have been involved in development of CAD, Groupware, and event management applications, e-Commerce stores, B2B applications, HR-related solutions, CMS development and more.

PHP competes with other programming languages such as asp, asp.net, Perl, Ruby, and Python. PHP generally runs on a Web server, taking PHP code as its input and creating Web pages as output, but command-line scripting and client-side GUI applications are part of the three primary uses of PHP as well. PHP can be deployed on any Web server and on almost every OS platform free of charge. The PHP Group also provides the complete source code for users to build, customize and extend for their own use.

The LAMP architecture has become popular in the Web industry as a way of deploying inexpensive, reliable, scalable, secure web applications. PHP is commonly used as the P in this bundle alongside Linux, Apache and MySQL. PHP can be used with a large number of relational database management systems, runs on all popular Web servers and is available for many different operating systems. This flexibility means that PHP has a wide installation base across the Internet; over 18 million Internet domains are currently hosted on servers with PHP installed.

MySQL Technology Sun's MySQL technology is used by some of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations to save time and money by empowering their high-volume web sites, business-critical systems and commercial software.

With MySQL data archiving create and deploy effective and consistent policies for managing, securing and storing data from a single console. It helps relocate 50% of the inactive data from your production database to a secure online data archive.

Enterprise data management is a proven solution to manage growth in application and custom databases by reallocating data out of production systems into secondary, lower cost storage systems while maintaining seamless data access through the native application or BI layer