This presentation will show some historic states of drupal. Based on this it will be possible to learn lessons for now and the future.

• What was drupal on 3.x, 4.x
• Did we made real progress in the meantime?

After this some of the current state of drupal7 will be presented.

• What is the current state
• What needs to be done to be able to work perfectly with drupal7
• What will happen with drupal7 in the future

After this some of the ideas of drupal8 will be presented, probably driven by the core conventions from drupalcon london.