By jimrivas on

HI, my name is Jim Rivas and I was wondering what's the price of Drupal? I searched for it on this website and I can not find anything related to the price. Can you give me some details? Anyway,the product seems good, so I want to use it. Is it possible to try it first? The trial version has any limitation? Jim Rivas
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Jim Rivas

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VM commented

Drupal is free. There is no fee to download and use drupal. There is no trial version. The version for download is the full version that everyone uses. use the download link on this page http://drupal.org/project/Drupal+project to download version 4.7.4 which is the most stable version ready for production at this time.

Addons modules can be found in the downloads area, and they are also free and supported by the module maintainers, developers and community members.

The developers and community are pretty busy working and testing on Drupal 5 which is in beta stage. There is no public relase date for Drupal 5.0 at this time.

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styro commented

Drupal is running a special at the moment.

Not only can you get the trial version for free, but you can also get the full version for free too!

And as an extra special offer, they are throwing in access to all the source code free!

But wait, there's more....

You also get full access to all documentation and support forums and mailing lists.

OK seriously now :) - Drupal is an open source application. All the source code is available and there are no restrictions on using it at all. It is written and supported by a community of volunteers.

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rszrama commented

<tongue-in-cheek>If you want to pay me $50, I'll email it to you and throw in a music file I wrote for an old arcade game I made in QBasic. ; )</tongue-in-cheek>

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raycampbell commented

Open source means you can use it without paying any money, but there are restrictions in the license that make open source technically different from "free." In most cases where people would use the software, it's as good as free, but in some cases where you want to market a derivative product of any kind, it can matter.

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orick commented

As a recently converted Drupal zealot, I am glad to see someone like it enough to want to buy it.

If you make millions from using Drupal, remember there is alway the donation page. :)

http://drupal.org/contribute/donations

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Gunnar Langemark commented

Feel free to give any amount you think Drupal is worth to you here.
Drupal is not crippleware, and it will install with full functionality from the word "go".
You can even make it better by installing some of the hundreds of contributed modules and themes.
The work gone into building Drupal has been estimated to be in the range of 50 - 100 man years.
Surely it is worth some of your time or money.

Best

Gunnar Langemark
http://www.langemark.com

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bpocanada commented

Look at some of the work done/ being done in Drupal on http://www.drupaldesigns.com
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artmacc commented

We are in the business planning stage of building a social hub and curious how it might work with contracted developers using this and working on uniques project?

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binhfuture commented

hi all,

i am a member of Drupal, i just join Drupal community for a short time so i know a little about this open source.

my boss asked me to research the open source market, i don't know how companies working with Drupal can survive? where the money they can get to pay salary to their staff? What is revenue average those companies can get from Drupal manual?

i appreciate if you help me to answer this question

plz help me assp!

thanks in advance!

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VM commented

Developers of Drupal make money by building websites for their clients. The money comes from paying clients. You likely won't any of the companies that work in the industry to expose their annual revenue. Websites even when built on Open Source Software can range from the neighborhood kid putting the site up for a few hundred to a top house building one for millions.

Not sure what's difficult to understand here. Just because Drupal as a codebase doesn't have a cost to the end user or developer, the labor of building a website does indeed include a cost. Clients tend to want features and expand their sites. Many clients prefer to have someone knowledgeable build out their sites, update their sites and eventually upgrade their sites.