  Tim O'Reilly's Three Insights into the Drupaling of the White
House  BY Nancy Scola | Monday, October 26 2009  Publisher,
conference convener, and lover of animal pen drawings Tim
O'Reilly gives us his insight into how the White House just
switched from a proprietary content management system whipped up
by a federal contractor to one based on Drupal, the free and
open source software made by the Internet. Or, more
specifically, by people who spend a lot of time on the Internet
and like to make and give away software.  There are three things
about O'Reilly's analysis that pop out in particular. Consider
this fair warning: the first is really, really technical, at
least for 98% of the population. O'Reilly gives word that the
White House will be using an implementation of Drupal that makes
use of what is called the LAMP stack in softwarese. The "L" is
for Linux, the open-source operating system. (It'll be of the
Red Hat variety, says Tim.) The "A" is for the Apache web server
software package, itself open sour