Smartronix has won the contract to redesign Recovery.gov, arguably the highest profile Drupal site currently in production. Unfortunately, it appears based on the skills required of Web Developer positions in their current career openings, that Smartronix is a .Net shop, so while nothing has said explicitly that they'll be abandoning Drupal, all evidence seems to point that way.
As a developer pushing Drupal adoption in an "enterprise" scale shop with a significant number of government clients, it was nice to be able to point to Recovery.gov as a production site running in Drupal. While Drupal still powers many meaningful sites like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the UN Millennium Campaign, none of those have quite the same impact in my organization as Recovery.gov did. Losing it to .Net is, I expect, going to take Drupal down a notch in my organization's estimation.
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