Bali, Indonesia – water&stone is now in the process of gathering data for the fourth annual Open Source CMS Market Share Report. This year’s report will be looking at survey data gathered from CMS users around the world. The survey is now available online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2011-OSCMS-Survey
In the lead up to the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Report, water&stone surveyed a group of users of various open source content management systems. In the survey, we asked users to evaluate the most popular open source content management systems and to share the criteria they used in the selection process. During November and December of 2010, over 5,000 people participated in the survey. Of that group, 3,365 answered the question: “When selecting a CMS, how important are the following features?” In this article, we share the insights gained from that question.
The 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report showed clearly the ongoing dominance of PHP-based content management systems. While the LAMP stack may be the leader in the arena of web content management, it is certainly not the only game in town. For the 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report we looked at not only the PHP-based systems, but also the Java and .NET-based systems.
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.
Rumours of a pending IBM / Sun deal raise some interesting questions. What if IBM became the steward of Java, StarOffice and MySQL? The potential for a lot of good things, I would say.
IBM has a well-established history of supporting open source (and they also do a pretty good job at making a business out of it, too!). Over the years the firm has released large amounts of their intellectual property to the developer community and have leant their not-unsubstantial support to the Eclipse Foundation and the Developerworks program.
The inclusion of Sun's IP and expertise would give IBM a huge boost in the open source arena. Not only would the acquisition of Solaris give IBM a vital and powerful OS (and make it painless to retire AIX) but also the access to populist applications like StarOffice and MySQL would give IBM open source reach that is unchallenged in the industry.
One also has to think that IBM could do some interesting things with the combination of StarOffice and Lotus Symphony. Symphony is based on the ODF (Open Document Format) standard. Imagine a turbo-charged StarOffice backed by IBM. Think that might get Microsoft's attention?
As for Java, the combination of Eclipse, WebSphere and the Sun Java resources would bring the potential for creating a truly united and consistent Java development path, and would give Java a much-needed shot in the arm.
While this is all still speculative -- with a few arguing that the deal will run into anti-trust problems -- it is fun to imagine what it might bring.
