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None of the metrics I've seen outside of Acquia marketing materials suggest Drupal is growing. Developer engagement plateaued a couple years ago if Google keywo
by knieveltech 12y ago
None of the metrics I've seen outside of Acquia marketing materials suggest Drupal is growing. Developer engagement plateaued a couple years ago if Google keyword searches and module issue queues are anything to go by. The number of purely Drupal dev shops have plummeted over the last few years. Job postings (locally and elsewhere) appear to be limited to well-established large enterprise and .edu, and regional shops that service these markets.
Wordpress, on the other hand, appears to be on fire.
- snowwrestler 12y agoDrupal and Wordpress are growing in different ways. Drupal is growing into more complex, higher-cost-per-project jobs that would have gone to big ticket closed source CMS platforms a few years ago. And Wordpress is growing into the mid-size jobs that Drupal and Joomla used to be the only option for. By any metric of public popularity, Wordpress is growing a lot faster than Drupal. Drupal's growth is into the enterprise arena which is not as public. The number of purely Drupal shops is dropping because pretty much every agency of note had added Drupal to their stable of solutions. It's not an esoteric differentiator anymore--which is actually a form of growth for the platform.
- dreamfactory2 12y agoThe number of Drupal core contributors has shot up from the hundreds to the thousands over the past couple of years