After a short hiatus of a few years at the end of the previous administration, the new team in charge of the US Whitehouse's web site has moved back to using FOSS. It's a regular network-safe operating system plus Apache, as expected. The big change is that Drupal (http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/why-white-houses-embrace-drupal-matters-0) is being used.
Drupal (http://drupal.org/) is one of the top content management systems used across the board in business, education and government. Three others are Plone (http://plone.org/), Joomla (http://www.joomla.org/), and Lenya (http://lenya.apache.org/). There are dozens of modules available, and it is always possible to modify them, replace them, or add new ones. Functionality can be mixed and matched in a properly modular system.
The license of Drupal allows improvements made by the Whitehouse web team to be redistributed, either directly from the Whitehouse, or by feeding back to the main project. This shows that the recent statement made in China, about access to information being a right, is more than just talk.
that is a very wise thing to do.those that supported the motion are very intelligent people.it makes sense.