Although Wordpress is thought of as Blogging Engine, and first and foremost it is a blogging platform,Â? butÂ? it is also a complete Content Management System (CMS). Drupal, on the other hand, is first and foremost a CMS with the ability to be a Bloging Portal, a Community Portal, or just about any other web application you can think of.

Wordpress has gained huge popularity over the last year for being the blog software of choice, with its easy to use, get and install documentation, and the ability to add numerous plug-ins and change themes. Anyone who wants a full featured blogging platform would be able to setup the service in only a few minutes.

While the Drupal community has gained a lot of ground, the core base is very passionate and no doupt the numbers are growing. See the graph below. Drupal has a strong upper hand because the CMS can be ported into almost any business application. Check out NowPublic.com or Bryght.com. What would be interesting though is if Drupal packaged its software in bundles that were pre-configured as a ‘community’ or ‘blogging platform’.

It has been great to watch these two communities change the face of the internet over the last year, and I think the next year will be even more interesting with the development of better web 2.0 toolkits and frameworks.

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