Posted by nanharbison on December 16, 2010 at 11:49pm
At our meeting last week, we discussed which was more popular, Joomla or Drupal. I am interested to know whether one or the other is going to become the industry standard, not necessarily whether one is better than the other. Just for the heck of it, I checked the number of members in the Drupal group on meetup.com versus the number for Joomla (both worldwide). Drupal has 13.061 and Joomla has 3100. Interesting...
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Just my two cents
Most likely I see Drupal and Joomla inhabiting their own niches. As to the future, who knows, anything could happen. I don't think it belongs to Joomla, but that is just my opinion. Some CMS that none of us have heard of could be the next thing. Trends come and go in the land of the internet.
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The question should be...
Que es mas macho?
3,000ish members on groups.drupal.org
On groups.drupal.org we have around 3,000 members. Since our groups website is so powerful (thanks Moshe!), I don't believe meetup.com has been as useful for herding us cats as groups.drupal.org does.
At least that's what's happening here in Boston.
And my two cents: for granular permissions, custom content, modular functionality, and lean code, nothing beats Drupal.
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I guess that's like asking
I guess that's like asking what the industry standard is for cell phones today; obviously there isn't one because people have specific needs that go into making those choices. I've used Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress for various projects and they all have their own specific strengths and weaknesses (although even this is a debatable issue). I think if you rephrased your question a bit to address the strengths and weaknesses angle and attended a more generalized conference on CMSs (or maybe dig up videos on YouTube?) you could make more informed decisions.
Woodpress...
actually, I was just at a rather large meetup entitled Wordpress v DRUPAL... there was a guy there comparing the two. But it was pretty obvious that he was a WP guy, because he really did not know much about DRUPAL. There were some other guys in the room with signs that said "DRUPAL SUCKS" but they were pitching WP as well. These same pathetic guys with signs also started lecturing on what little capabilities Drupal 4 has compared to WP. Then the kicker... They could not answer the question why DRUPAL projects pay better, or why WHITEHOUSE.GOV would choose DRUPAL over WP and Joomla.
I'm just ashamed to be hanging out with techtypes anyway... So wont do that again.