Top Sites Running Drupal

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Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution. Many other organizations both large and small have found it to be a perfect platform for managing their website including some Fortune 100 companies. I decided to compile a list of some of the more notable organizations running drupal. This list is not exhaustive, but intended to demonstrate top site powered by drupal. If you know other top sites also powered by drupal, please list them in the comments below.

What’s important here is that technology leaders are recognizing the power of Drupal and Open Source and adopting it at an amazing rate. This site is drupal powered and so is the CMS portion of Portero.com.

The List

Publications

• Fast Company
• The Onion
• InfoWorld
• BBC
  • BBC Music Magazine
  • BBC Countryfile Magazine
  • BBC Focus Magazine
  • BBC Who Do You Think You Are Magazine
  • BBC History Magazine
  • BBC Home And Antiques
• CNN (cnngo.com)
• Linux Journal
• Emmys

Political

• British Government
• President Obama
• Australian Prime Minister
• New Zealand Government

Academic

• Duke University
• Stanford University (nearly 70 sites, listed here)
• Rutgers University
• Harvard University
  • Science and Engineering department
  • Berkman Center for Internet and Society
  • Institute for Quantitative Social Science
  • Initiative in Innovative Computing
  • Harvard Magazine
• M.I.T (media lab)

Corporations

• Mattel
• Fedex (news)
• AOL (corporate and developer)
• Lucas Arts (Star Wars, The Old Republic)

Geek

• Java.net
• drupal.org
• drupal.com
• zoopframework.com

Music

• Avril Lavigne
• Eric Clapton

Here is an excellent Case Study on migrating to Drupal

Update: Found this list of over 1000 sites powered by drupal courtesy of @jrlaughlin

Lastly, enjoy this video slideshow of sites powered by Drupal.