Drupal as plumbing in the Enterprise IT Stack

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Drupal has come a long way but we've seen a drop in sessions in 2015, along with a slow down. One way to make Drupal grow again is to become part of the plumbing of a typical IT stack, ie, consider Drupal as an App Server (similar to Weblogic and Websphere). Decoupled Drupal with Symfony integration make this possible with greater ease, though it could be done with great pain earlier. And this is a must-do if Drupal is going to play at all in the Internet-of-Things.

What does that mean?

Here are a few implications / suggestions:

1. Drupal needs to grow beyond the Web CMS bucket
2. Drupal as an app server: Drupal can do a lot more than just build websites – it can be deployed as an application server
3. Expanding the Drupal Ecosystem & Embedded Drupal (as a better alternative to distributions)
4. Quantifying the Drupal Economy and finding key lagging / leading indicators to give us a sense of the Drupal Ecosystem
5. Monetizing Drupal for the greater good