In this new blog post, Dries Buytaert, who founded Drupal and spent many years as one of Acquia’s most senior leaders, openly shares what he sees as one of the biggest mistakes in Acquia’s history. The mistake in question was shutting down a product called Acquia Gardens, a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform that allowed anyone to create Drupal websites without needing to write code.
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Orchestration is redefining the role of CMS platforms
Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, comments in his blog, which is always a source of great articles, on what he calls orchestration and how this is gaining importance in the marketing and technology sector. The key transformation is that the tech stack as such is losing centrality, since orchestration lets it behave like a network in which previously disconnected pieces of software can operate as connected nodes.
(more…)CMS market in October 2025: stability in the top 5, not so much in the rest
We are going to update the global CMS market share figures and since there is usually little month to month difference it is better to analyse the trends. WordPress (WP) remains the clear king of the Internet with 43,2% usage and more than 60% market share although in this latter figure it falls 0,2% month over month.
(more…)Driesnote at DrupalCon Vienna: AI is rewriting the rules of CMS and the internet
The impact of generative artificial intelligence AI is huge in our lives and it is also huge in content management systems (CMS). Drupal is by no means unaware of a train it necessarily has to catch: Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder, said at DrupalCon Vienna that AI is both storm and path and that it is a change that must definitely be surfed.
(more…)Orchestration is redefining the role of CMSs
Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, writes on his blog, which is always a source of strong articles, about what he calls orchestration and how it is gaining importance in the marketing and technology space. The big shift is that the tech stack itself now matters less because it is beginning to act as a network thanks precisely to orchestration, so that previously disconnected software pieces can operate as connected nodes.
(more…)Drupal can rest easy with Acquia’s new CEO, Chris Tranquill
This is at least what Drupal founder Dries Buytaert states in one of his recent blog communications. Chris Tranquill is now the new CEO of Acquia, one of the world’s most popular DXP (digital experience platforms), replacing Steve Reny, who spent many years at the company, the last three as CEO.
(more…)Drupal: the best placed to succeed in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)?
Dries Buytaert, Drupal’s founder, is as unequivocal as other CMS and DXP leaders. The arrival of AI has completely reshaped the market; that is no longer in dispute. The question now is which platform the agencies or companies will choose to prosper in an AI-dominated world. On his blog, Buytaert argues that Drupal is the best-placed platform to prosper in the AI era.
(more…)CMS Market: market share data updated to July 2025
It has been a few months since we last caught up with global CMS market share. We are going to make up for that lapse by providing the latest figures, in which WordPress is, of course, the clear number 1, yet for some time it has been showing signs of stagnation and, in fact, its share is slowly declining, according to W3Techs. WordPress is, of course, the clear number 1, yet for some time it has been showing signs of stagnation and, in fact, its share is slowly declining, according to W3Techs.
(more…)How to easily test the new Drupal CMS
On January 15, Drupal introduced its new CMS, setting out to compete directly with WordPress. Drupal CMS has become a reality, and following the announcements and updates shared over the past few weeks—particularly at the latest DrupalCon events—there is a large group of professionals eager to see how this service performs.
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