7. Content Management Systems (CMS)

7.1 Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Spip...

Drupal has been in development since 2000, with the first version released in January 2001. Wordpress has been distributed since May 2003. Joomla was born in 2005 out of a revolt by developers of the Mambo system, whose owner wanted to reserve, if not the monopoly, at least the notoriety. Spip (Système de publication pour l'Internet) is a free software program developed in France, originally for the Le Monde diplomatique newspaper website, and distributed since 2001.

These four Web publishing programs (and many others) are based on a similar architecture:

• The data to be published is stored in a database (most often MySQL, although other choices are possible). MySQL's position is threatened...