Drupal powering hosted services

SESSION OVERVIEW
A panel geared to describe what changes in the hosting industry mean to drupal and what approaches and modules in drupal are geared to make use of these changes.
We will also describe the hosted services market where a company can host many neich services/products in a multisited environment.

TRACK
Marketing and business

AGENDA
* Hosting & Drupal Discussion
— Hosting industry changes and direction and what this means for drupal
— Drupal 7 will have a pre-requisite for php5.(through the gophp5 effort) Is this a problem for hosting companies?
— Media hosting storage abstraction
* Hosted Services
— Overview and introduction to delet, schoona and kehilali.
— The strategic shift from project orientation to product orientation.
— One theme to rule them all
— The balance between control and freedom for the site (why we wrote the very simple Site Specific CSS module)
— Unified support.

GOALS
Participants will gain an insight on one possible method to offering subscription based services using drupal.