Making Drupal Attractive to Independent Software Vendors

Track: 
Business and Strategy
Experience: 
Beginner

Independent software vendors (ISVs) have specific needs that the Drupal Community needs to address if it hopes to grow into a $1bn ecosystem. This session will provide a broad overview of what ISVs are, the role they play in a general software ecosystem, and how their revenue models are supported in open source communities. This will include illustrating successful ISV implementations already part of the Drupal ecosystem. Then, the age-old debate between Drupal as a framework verses Drupal as a platform will be discussed in the context of ISVs. The session will conclude with an exploration of the enterprise content management landscape; reflecting upon how trends in web application framework development and content management servers for distributed application development may impact the Drupal Community in the years ahead.

Intended audience: 

Strategists, Analysts, Media, Business Leaders, Software Vendors

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
What is an ISV?
Question 2: 
Why does the Drupal Community need ISVs?
Question 3: 
What are the barriers to ISV development using Drupal?
Question 4: 
Why would Drupal be attractive to an ISV?
Question 5: 
How can the Drupal Community spur increased ISV participation?
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