The 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report was released today and concludes that three brands - Joomla!, WordPress and Drupal - dominate today’s market. Since 2008, The Big Three have solidified their grip on the market, with Joomla! taking the lead in many indicators for the first time since the project’s launch in 2005.
The report follows the market share and brand strength indicators for 20 top systems, assessing each on a wide variety of traditional and Web 2.0 measures. The study focuses on identifying the market leaders, both in terms of rate of adoption and mindshare.
This is the second year we’ve conducted the analysis. The report benefits greatly from expanded historical data and this year’s user survey. It’s clearly been a good year for Joomla!, but it’s also been a very positive year for a number of other projects, indicating the growing strength of open source offerings in the content management space.
While WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal lead the survey set across a wide range of measures, the report also identifies other stars. Alfresco, a vendor focused on both document management and web content management, performed well across a number of categories and led the Java-based open source CMS race over its nearest rival, Liferay. DotNetNuke led the .NET-based open source CMS category, though the report goes on to identify reasons why that position may soon be changing. In addition to naming the market leaders, the study also identifies projects whose market share and brand metrics indicate they are at risk.
The Open Source CMS Market Share Report was launched in 2008 by digital agency water&stone. For the 2009 report, water&stone joined forces with CMSWire.com in order to create a more comprehensive and authoritative report. As a result, this year’s report covers more ground, and looks more deeply into the metrics. A key difference in this year’s report is the presence of direct evidence of adoption rates, brand awareness and brand sentiment, which was gathered by a survey of over 500 open source CMS users.
A complimentary copy of the survey can be downloaded from http://www.cmswire.com/downloads/cms-market-share/
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I just want to say your analytics for producing this report are extremely clever and rigorous given the difficulty of measuring something like FOSS.
It really stands out from the superficial analyses you see in many other reports, so well done.
I have other opinions on the report itself (mostly positive!) but your methodology is really worth highlighting imho.
Rgrds
Paul
http://www.cognidox.com/company/blog/open-source-cms-market-share-report...
Define "market share"?
Yes, really well done, but this is really just brand strength and usage assessment. Not market share. It does suggest some things about the nature of the markets of the big 3 however.
My thoughts on that and why Joomla disapproval is so high:
http://www.newlocalmedia.com/blog/102-open-source-cms-market-share-repor...
How long is a piece of string?
The whole definition of market share is a bit of a tough argument and certainly one on which reasonable minds can disagree. We're comfortable with how we've approached this -- and we have revised it quite a bit since last year (the user survey really helped us a lot, as it gave us direct evidence of adoption patterns). I am sure, however, that we will refine further before next year's report and comments like yours help spur debate internally.
Thanks also for your comments on the Joomla! situation. Great to see this report is providing food for thought / fodder for discussion.
best,
ric