Why choose Drupal for your web application or website?

Here are some of the reasons why you should choose drupal for developing your web
application or website:

1. Easy to install
2. Easy to use - no programming knowledge needed! Spend 2 hours administering your site. After that you will feel very familiar with Drupal
3. Evidently user friendly and easy to learn
4. Lots of features, such as custom search engine friendly URLs(SEF), categories, search function, RSS, easy administration
5. Lots of modules to add even more functionality to your site
6. Flexibility - you can easily turn your drupal installation into a forum, faq, blog, wiki and many other types of web sites.
7. Free to use, open source. You can freely install drupal and you can modify the source code to fit your needs, if you want.
8. Lots of users & community - easy to find solutions to your problems. The large community guarantees that Drupal will have a bright future.
9. Lots of themes, you will find one theme that will suite your websites content at the official Drupal website that also for free.
10. Well documented updates and modules, not that difficult to code own modules and themes as well.

Except of the modules you can download at drupal.org, Drupal originally ships with modules that facilitate:

• Post, revise, and categorize content
• Conduct searches
• Post comments
• Take part in forums
• Vote in polls
• Work on collaborative writing projects
• Post and view personal profiles
• Communicate among themselves or with the managers of a site
• Change the look of a site with off-the-shelf or custom-made themes
• Build multi-level menus
• Provide users with an interface in their local language
• Provide RSS feeds
• Gather content from the RSS feeds of other sites
• Register and manage user accounts
• Assign fine-grained user roles, granting users permission to use selected features of a site
• Use access rules to deny site access to specified usernames, e-mail addresses, and IP addresses
• Provide statistics and reports for administrators
• Manage caching and throttling to improve how a site performs in heavy traffic
• Construct and specify various input filters and content types
• Generate user-friendly, easy-to-remember URLs

Statistics Speak

The above statistics will give you a better idea why to use Drupal. Absolutely it is one of the best open source free CMS available.