Other Systems

We released today the first extensive report on market share in the open source CMS market. The report covers 19 of the most popular systems and measures them on a variety of traditional and Web 2.0 metrics.

We found some interesting things, but the key conclusion (for most people) is our determination that the market is dominated by just three names: WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal. The report also indentifies projects that may be in trouble and new names to watch.

At 50 pages, there is a significant amount of data that should be of use to developers or to anyone who is looking to commit to a web publishing system.

Visit the water&stone site to download a free copy: http://www.waterandstone.com/resources.html

The Mambo project has just undergone another fork -- with the core developers deciding to step away from the Mambo Foundation and start an independent project.

The new open source CMS project is called MiaCMS and is based on the recent Mambo 4.6.3 codeset. The project team is an all star list from recent Mambo history: Chad Auld, who was the Mambo Dev Team leader for nearly 3 years; Ozgur Cem Sen, who lead the team after Chad's departure about 6 months ago; Richard Ong, who has worked on Mambo docs and development for years; and finally Al Warren, who was with the Mambo project on and off for years and just recently lead the Mambo dev efforts. All-in-all, MiaCMS is comprised of the core of the Mambo Dev Team for the last 3 years.

Just kicked off a new facebook group. Common interest here being Open Source content management systems. It's on open group, so feel free to join in, share insights & information.
Facebook | Open Source CMS Group - A Facebook group dedicated to sharing information about open source content management systems. [My Delicious Feed]

The existence of a large and healthy crop of open source content management systems (CMS) is nothing new: Some claim more than 500 active projects are floating around out there in cyberspace. While the actual number of vital projects is most certainly much, much lower, the existence of relatively mature solutions like Mambo, Drupal and Plone prove that the open source CMS market is at the healthiest state in its history and that users now have more viable choices than ever.

Pligg CMS - Open source CMS focused on Web2.0 type social behavior. [My Delicious Feed]

A friend of mine sent me a link to a new Open Source CMS named Pligg. He knew I'd been looking around for Webs 2.0 - specific open source CMS implementations (as opposed to adding Web 2.0 functionality via extensions, I was looking for a system who's core was tailored around the paradigm).

Pligg is in beta -- on verge of a full release. It's worth a peek if you are interested in implementing community-generated content.

I have a test site up locally on MAMP and will probably put something live in the next week for further testing. Will keep you posted...