Drupal 7 Coming Soon to a Web Site Near You

Drupal project leader Dries Buytaert told DrupalCon attendees in San Francisco this week that Drupal 7 could be available as soon as June 2010, if things continue to go well, according to this report from Gavin Clarke in The Register. Clarke is one of several thousands attendees learning about all things Drupal at the conference, which runs through April 21st. The report in The Register also says Microsoft has announced improved integration between SQL Server databases and Drupal PHP. Clarke says Buytaert also addressed the issue of the semantic Web:

The project leader hopes Drupal 7 can position the CMS for … the semantic web, where it’s data not just sites that are linked. Drupal 7 adds Resource Description Framework … to mark up content such as blog posts, comments, and tags from different sources, so you can present them in your own site or searches. It’s like turning the web into one vast database, according to Buytaert.

Another report, by Paul Krill in InfoWorld, says that IBM is using Drupal for several of its sites, and that configuration and staging will be among the improvements in the newest version of the popular content mangement software. The InfoWorld report also provides an interesting statistic, that Drupal is used for about 1 percent of Web sites, while WordPress “runs about 8.5 percent of the Web.” Apparently WordPress is first, CMS Joomla is second, with Drupal close behind Joomla. Another interesting statistic … Buytaert said when he helped create Drupal ten years ago he expected it would be used by about 10 people.

To find out more about the semantic Web,, you can read this information from W3C.

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