The US White House website is running on open source software.

The site at www.whitehouse.gov is running on a major open source CMS, Drupal. Drupal and Joomla! are two of the largest and most widely-supported open source content management systems available.

Both use a LAMP (Linuix, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server configuration.

Publication of the move by the White House to an open sources system is a major publicity boost for Drupal and open source software generally.

Information on the news highlighting some of the relevant security issues can be found here: