At the end of an article on Six Apart's purchase of LiveJournal in CRM News, reporter Jennifer LeClaire reports the following:
Ochman was referring to Drupal as a potentially fierce competitor going forward. Ochman said Drupal was organized by developers who were frustrated by slow fixes to bugs in Six Apart's Moveable Type and other popular blogging software programs. The Drupal project released version 4.5.1 of its open-source content management Latest News about content management platform in December.
"Drupal does everything that Moveable Type and a lot of the other popular software can do and then some -- and it's free," Ochman said. "Like Firefox, it's always being updated and improved. Drupal is starting to become real competition. The strong companies are going to be the successful ones."
Looking back at Drupal's birthday announcement eariler this year, which celebrated 4 years of development (since January 2001), it's clear that Drupal started development independent of any perceived need to fix bugs in Movable Type, which commenced development in September of 2001. Ochman is correct, however, about the amount of activity surrounding Drupal development, and releases are frequent enough to satisfy those who want bugs fixed and new features without overwhelming users into having to upgrade too often.
Of course, a little competition is healthy, but so is growing the ecosystem.