Think Different

Drupalcon San Francisco — last week, David Peterson ( @davidseth ) caught up with Dries Buytaert ( @Dries ), the creator of Drupal, to discuss where Drupal is heading, what challenges are ahead and what keeps him going. Dries Buytaert: What do you want to talk about? David Peterson: I wanted to talk about where you see the big shifts happening — touching on Tim O’Reilly’s keynote address where he talked about the future of devices and cloud data. Also, I was in the Warner Brothers Drupalcon session and they said the biggest problem they were facing is not music piracy. It’s actually the fragmented way that people access content. The website is no longer the focal point; it’s actually the Nintendo Wii’s, the Xbox, PlayStations and mobile phones. So with that in mind, where do you see things going and how will Drupal facilitate that? DB: Right. DP: So let’s start with a very basic question. When do you think a stable beta version of Drupal 7 might land? DB: So, Drupal 7 has about a 100...

Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren't a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews. What's surprising is that this issue is true even for such popular solutions as Drupal and Joomla. Stating in January that, "most comparisons of Drupal ( news , site ) and Joomla ( news , site ) conclude that you should select the one that best suits your needs. However, they give too little guidance about how to do that," Webology eBusiness Solutions set out to quantify the pros and cons of each by releasing a survey. The Survey The survey divided questions into five categories: Developers Documentation Performance/Functional Aspects Appearance Ease of Use/Learning Users were classified by their response to "CMS most experienced with," with those answering "Not Applicable/Don't Know" to this question being removed from the analysis. In general, the respondents were slanted a bit more toward Joomla users than...