'Windows Web App Gallery' Readies To Sport 'Drupal Kickstart'

Online, July 3, 2012 (Newswire.com) - The online gateways (read websites) of The White House, The Economist, MTV, london.gov.uk and the Onion (American news service) have one thing in common. For starters, all of them run on Drupal.

For developers and CMS aficionados, Drupal needs no introduction and presumably so does 'Commerce Guys'. As for the uninitiated, Commerce Guys is the software firm that created Drupal Commerce - the eCommerce kin of Drupal (by making a fitting use of Drupal's strengths and dynamism).

In the latest reports, Commerce Guys has proclaimed that its famous eCommerce application, 'Drupal Commerce Kickstart' would soon find a place in an exclusive version 1.8 of the Windows Web App Gallery.

An appropriate step towards strengthening ties between Drupal Commerce and Microsoft, this new distribution would ensure some resident support for Microsoft SQL server in Drupal.

The advent of eCommerce platforms like Drupal Commerce has made the life of web developers who execute PSD to HTML and PSD to Drupal not just simpler but definitely fuss free.

One of the senior developers in Commerce Guys, Julien Dubios apparently spelled out that distribution of Drupal Commerce in the Windows Web App Gallery is the best thing that happened to it in the recent times. It would facilitate Drupal websites to be created and hosted entirely on a Windows stack. In fact the move goes way ahead of eCommerce, as the SQL server module would permit any Microsoft Database to effectively run on Drupal.

The way it's supposed to work is whenever the Drupal Commerce Kickstart 1.8 would be downloaded from the Windows Web App Gallery, it would by itself download as well as install all the added software components required for a Drupal Website on a Microsoft server. That is, a powered, soup-to-nuts solution to build Drupal Commerce on Windows.

Having played a pivotal part in the creation of the piece that links two of the pioneering technologies-Drupal and Microsoft; the organization seems to be quite elated already. The Chief Technology Officer of the organization Damien Tournoud expressed his delight and eagerness over the increased efficiency when Drupal's capabilities would amalgamate with the immensely advantageous Microsoft platform.

Last year, Commerce Guys had imparted the module that enables Drupal to combine with Microsoft SQL Server. In the past too, Drupal websites could work with a Windows web server, but only when they implemented non-Microsoft databases.

Drupal Commerce is renowned for its unparalleled flexibility, scalability as well as security for managing up to date eCommerce. It also provides myriad abilities, by having in its purview the power to upload catalogs of merchandise, acceptance of online payments, merge with shipping services in addition to interacting with the clients'. The firm also offers Internet entrepreneurs with cutting edge ways to handle complicated products, community, content as well as context management.

About Commerce Guys - Inventor of Drupal Commerce, this eCommerce firm works in tandem with Drupal and is today a name to reckon with in the social publishing platform and open source Internet infrastructure. The sole objective of Commerce Guys is to present Online entrepreneurs with a better strategy to create engaging eCommerce environments for their audiences through Drupal.

Drupal Commerce is used in over 13,000 sites across the globe. It was acknowledged in the Cool Vendors in E-Commerce 2012 story by Gartner Inc. besides it's the latest winner of the Microsoft Bizpark European Summit award.

The firm ground this Open Source service has gained today is a result of sheer innovation and farsightedness.

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