Dries Buytaert

I completely agree. In many aspects, such as those Jen Lampton is pointing out in the slideshow below, WordPress simply is better than Drupal. Same goes with Joomla as well.

Jen starts by comparing numbers, showing that WordPress has more installations, more modules, more themes and a much larger community. Then she goes on with telling you why its better, what Drupals problems are and rounds off with what the Drupal community needs to focus on.

Honestly I thought it would take longer that 6 days to get the first spam comment, and it was only the 5th comment, including my own two replies.

In a blog post Dries Buytaert just announced that Drupal Gardens now have more than 10,000 sites.

Considering that it was launched as a private beta as recently as late January this year, and you still have to apply for beta access this speaks volumes about the interest for Drupal.

On average that is about 100 new account each day, including the limited private beta period in the beginning.

The whole Drupal community has only one thing in mind - When will Drupal 7 be released? Currently D7, as the community calls it, is in its 5th alpha release and there are still around 80 or so bugs marked as critical.

The first beta will not be released until the number of critical bugs are zero. Current pace indicates that we should see the first beta sometime this summer. Since I am as eager as everyone else I can't wait for the real release, but that is longer away as after beta there will be release candidates.