Water & Stone who are an open source content management Web consultancy have produced the first in-depth analysis of market share in the competitive open source CMS market. Over 50 pages in length, the white paper includes analysis of a number of issues which are relevant to any firm or individual looking to make a commitment to a web publishing system.

The report studies in total 19 open source cms systems, the information included in the report is pretty extensive as this market can be almost impossible to get verified statistics across all included systems. To compile the report Water & Stone have taken into account downloads, installations, third-party support, Books Written and published for each system, popularity of the projects website, project activity, project ratings on sites like OpenSourceCMS.com, along with other many other method’s of popularity measurement.

Projects Rated in The Report Include.

• b2evolution
• CMSMadeSimple
• Drupal
• e107
• Elgg
• eZ Publish
• Joomla!
• Mambo
• MediaWiki
• MODx
• php-Nuke
• phpWebSite
• Pligg
• Plone
• SPIP
• TikiWiki
• Typo3
• WordPress
• Xoops

You can download a free PDF copy of the report from the Water & Stone web site. If you like Open Source CMS Systems it’s worth the read.

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