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Dries Buytaert is the founder and lead of the open source Drupal content management system, which OStatic and many other web sites are based on. He's also the co-founder of Acquia, which offers a commercially supported version of Drupal. Dries is one of the more respected pundits in all of open source, and we invited him to submit a guest post here at OStatic delivering his thoughts on the future of open source. He obliged, and you'll find his thought-provoking essay below the fold here, where he discusses eliminating middlemen, and much more. (Disclosure: Acquia is a sponsor of OStatic.)

Without a doubt, the open source project Drupal is one of the most robust content management systems (CMS) around. It provides the infrastructure and manages processes for many well-known web sites, including The Onion and OStatic. In our interview with Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, he said that there are 700 core contributors to the project, which he described as on the same scale as the Linux kernel. There are also over 2,000 modules for Drupal, making it hugely extensible. Since OStatic's inception, we've collected many good resources for both getting started with Drupal, and extending its functionality if you already use it. Here are six great resources, including interviews with Drupal insiders.

In recent years, free, open source content management systems (CMS) have become very powerful tools for building, deploying and managing web sites, blogs and more. You're probably familiar with some of the big names in this arena, including Drupal (which Ostatic is based on) and Joomla. OpenSourceCMS is a site that lets you put on your administrator gloves and try top, free CMS tools for free. You can spend hours as an administrator, and watch free video tutorials for CMS systems targeted for blogs, e-commerce sites, and other site categories. Check out the details here.?