Ebay's x.com drops current CMS for open source Drupal

Another Drupal win! Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, is featured in Wired, talking about eBay's decision to use Drupal for its new x.commerce business unit. 

From Wired:

For eBay’s Neal Sample, Drupal is the ideal platform for driving an online community because so many people saw it as the ideal platform for driving an online community. “It’s almost a self-fulfilling prophecy,” he says. “Because so many communities have been on Drupal, developers have built so many extensions — so many ways to customize it — from its message board capabilities to the CMS to ratings and reviews. All of these things are already there because real communities have already asked for them.”

Read more about eBay's x.com going Drupal.