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…)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…)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…)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.
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