Compare Drupal and Notepad - Apr 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Drupal or Notepad?

Notepad is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Drupal, and Drupal is rated higher (87/100) than Notepad (58/100). Drupal offers users more features (4) than Notepad (3). There is a clear winner in this case and it is Drupal!

Looking for the right Content Management solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Drupal Vs. Microsoft

Drupal : Drupal is a free software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization.Drupal is open source software maintained and developed by a community of 630,000+ users and developers. It's distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or "GPL"), which means anyone is ...

Microsoft: Microsoft Corporation is an American corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. Microsoft is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues.

Who is more expensive? Drupal or Notepad?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Content Management software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Drupal and Notepad.

Drupal price starts at $500 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Drupal is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Content Management software. Notepad price starts at $30 per license , When comparing Notepad to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Content Management software cost.

Bottom line: Notepad is more expensive than Drupal.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Drupal Vs. Notepad based on some of the most important and required Content Management features.

Drupal: Data Import/Export, Online Customer Support, Rich Text Editor, Content Management.

Notepad: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support.

Target customer size

Drupal is suitable for companies of all shapes and sizes starting from local businesses to large and global corporations including news publishing, corporate, education, art, music, multimedia, community and social networking sites. Notepad is specifically designed for people who work with plain text every now and then and doesn’t require using formatting styles or tags.