While commercial operations for “coupled” CMSes like Acquia (Drupal) and Automattic (WordPress) have been running for some time, the segment of “headless” content management systems, are newer disruptors in the market. Unlike traditional, “monolithic” CMSes that are responsible for both administering and serving content, headless solutions decouple these two functions. This not only makes the content itself leaner (as it’s comprised of “flat” HTML, instead of pages that must populate from a database when loaded), but often allows for mixing and matching of the tooling that administers the content from that which generates it. CrafterCMS, a solution built in Java, announced stepping into the black in 2023, bolstered by growth in enterprise services and Crafter Cloud, it’s cloud service offering.
Source Digit Highlights Open Source Tools for Local Businesses
An article by Source Digit highlights how open source can cover a large portion of the tech needs for many types of small businesses. Covering inventory, ERP, CRM, web communications, and collaboration tools, segments such as retail or small-scale manufacturing could use this piece as a checklist. While work management isn’t covered explicitly, a number of ERP and collaboration solutions have rudimentary task tools built in as well.
Leading Open Source CMS Developers Found Open Web Alliance
The communities behind the leading open source CMS projects–Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, and WordPress–have founded the Open Web Alliance (via Drupal). The primary goals of the Alliance are to promote open source content management systems as well as enhance collaboration between the projects, with an eye towards providing an alternative to proprietary systems that reduce users’ freedom. It’s worth noting that the Alliance’s members are the open source projects supporting their respective systems, not the commercial entities (such as Automattic for WordPress and Acquia for Drupal).
Tech Times Top 5 CMS Solutions Feature Open Source
Tech Times’ Top 5 list of CMS solutions for 2024 contain 60% open source. Usual suspects Drupal and Joomla! as well as ecommerce solution Magento feature prominently, while WordPress is conspicuous by its absence.
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