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Blog posts about Drupal

Adriaan Bloem

UGC, 2.0, and Commenting Services

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-May-2011

Perhaps you're thinking about adding some "2.0" to your site or intranet, to obtain that great user generated content (UGC) -- but where do you start? You start with commenting, of course ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Microsoft supports SharePoint WCM alternative with Orchard

Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Jan-2011

An omnibus platform like SharePoint presents two challenges to Microsoft in the web publishing arena:

  1. It doesn't employ the very latest version of .NET
  2. Long update cycles means it can fall behind functionally

Neither challenge is prohibitive, but both are potentially problematic ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Updated Web CMS product evaluations

Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Jan-2011

We've just updated our evaluations of five Web CMS offerings, and added a new one (Atex Polopoly) to our report ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Drupal 7 - One Small Step for Mankind

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 5-Jan-2011

After a long wait, extended several times, Drupal 7 was released today. So what is it like, and should you rush over to download and install it right away? ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Alternatives for converging website production and delivery

Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Dec-2010

Of late, many WCM as well as Portal vendors are touting their capabilities for more closely aligning content management and presentation management. Frankly, I wonder what took them so long. After all, what good is content if it cannot be delivered and consumed? In my opinion ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Which is better, Drupal or WordPress?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Dec-2010

One question I get on a regular basis is, "so, what's the best CMS?"  And I invariably reply, "it depends." There really is no best CMS; there is only the best fit for you, in your scenarios ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Can your vendor be too successful?

Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Dec-2010

You may be getting pressure to join a particular tool's bandwagon. This year it could be Drupal, Sitecore, Jive, or Liferay. Next year it will certainly be a different set of names. Our industry is nothing if not faddish. When faced with the bandwagon effect, I encourage you to pause and consider all the angles ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Do you need a simple or a complex CMS?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Jul-2010

I sometimes warn that a vendor's content management system is well suited to "simple" scenarios, but not necessarily a good fit for "more complex" cases. That's a bit problematic: ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

WordPress 3.0 released: Bzzzzz.

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Jul-2010

Well, it was to be expected: after a long wait, WordPress 3.0 got released just when I was on a short holiday. (WordPress admins shouldn't be allowed to take holidays for that exact reason.) ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Jive and Drupal: Don't take their word for it

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Apr-2010

This is just a little tiff between vendors, so why should you care? Well, both are making it abundantly clear that a vendor is not a neutral source of information ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Which CMS does The Real Story Group Use?

Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Mar-2010

I get that question a lot, especially since one of our main services is called "CMS Watch" ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Beware Drupal, Joomla! plug-in vulnerabilities

Added By Kas Thomas on 1-Mar-2010

IBM has released its IBM Security Solutions X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk Report, and the news for users of popular WCM platforms Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress is decidedly mixed ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Making sense of CMS Watch....

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Jun-2009

At CMS Watch we evaluate an awful lot of products, and making sense of all this research can be a challenge. ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

When will ECM open up?

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 20-May-2009

We're often asked why there are so few ECM open source options, when at the same time the Web CMS marketplace supports so many open source alternatives? ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Contrasting multi-site management in Drupal and Joomla

Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Feb-2009

Last night I had the pleasure of presenting to a DC-area Drupal Users' Group on the past and future of open source web content management ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Quick: what do Joomla!, Drupal, and WordPress have in common?

Added By Kas Thomas on 18-Aug-2008

Big Blue recently released its IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

A caution about Drupal as a social software platform

Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-May-2008

The open source package Drupal is one of the few social publishing platforms built on top of a longstanding Web CM (WCM) system ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

VC funding for Drupal?

Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Nov-2007

I've heard from several different sources about a "hot deal" for venture capital funding of a Drupal-oriented start-up called Acquia ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Scalability the Terracotta Way

Added By Kas Thomas on 14-Aug-2007

One of the theoretical advantages of Java-based Portals and Content Management applications is the ability to cluster servers for better performance. But the reality is that clustering is a black art that few vendors and implementation teams really ever seem to master adequately. So it comes as a (welcome) surprise to learn of an open-source technology that delivers many (if not most) of the things customers want here, but in surprisingly quick, painless fashion, at low cost, with no need to recompile code or stay up nights learning about disturbing-sounding concepts like "STONITH" (shoot the other node in the head). ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Drupal isn't Web-2.0-in-a-box

Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Apr-2007

... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Announcing latest version of The Web CMS Report

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Mar-2007

... Continue Reading

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