In the style of the WordPress drama, but in a somewhat calmer, slower and more measured way, Drupal founder Dries Buytaert has given Pantheon CEO Josh Koenig a small slap on the wrist, after Koenig has repeatedly been critical of the direction the Drupal project is taking.
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Acquia Fair Trade Initiative aims to solve Drupal’s funding problem
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Open source CMSs have been under a lot of pressure lately, mainly due to artificial intelligence (AI). For this reason, they are undertaking a series of major changes so they do not miss the AI wave and can continue to be leading software in the future.Drupal reveals the fortune it costs to maintain its infrastructure for open source
Drupal’s founder says maintaining the infrastructure behind its open source CMS costs about 3 million euros a year and argues that companies benefiting most from the ecosystem should help fund it more sustainably.
(more…)Review the changes in the CMS market in February 2026
W3Techs data has now been released, allowing us to see which CMSs were the most popular in February 2026. Without further delay, we bring you the updated CMS market share figures and then go on to comment on them.
(more…)Dries Buytaert’s view on European digital sovereignty, founder of Drupal
Dries Buytaert argues that European digital sovereignty depends less on where software is made than on who controls it, emphasizing licenses and copyright structure while noting geopolitical and AI related pressures on open source.
(more…)WordPress, AEM and Contentful, the most used CMS in 2025 according to Cloudflare’s year summary
Cloudflare has released its annual summary on its Radar website, a site that compiles a large amount of interesting data about Internet usage, traffic, most used services and much more. Specifically in the latter category, in adoption and usage data, we find information about the most popular CMS in 2025 and, of course, WordPress is king.
(more…)Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, admits his biggest mistake
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.
(more…)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.
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