Whether it is convenient and fruitful to use the two top open source content management systems (CMS) Joomla or Drupal is rather argumentative. Some peoples appreciate Joomla than Drupal; on the other hand, some finds Drupal is more conducive for their purposes. Again, some users assume both Joomla and Drupal are distinctively fit for their different purposes; as Drupal is great for Blogs, Joomla is more powerful for a full-blown CMS .Several research and surveys has been carried out to determine the users views and tendencies ,whether people seems Joomla or Drupal as for CMS use. To be decisive, let’s draw a nonbiased brief account about Joomla and Drupal.

System Requirements:

1. Drupal works with MySQL and postgress whereas Joomla supports only MySQL.
2. Drupal works with Apache or IIS whereas Joomla supports only Apache
3. Joomla accessible with SSL logins and SSL pages. Drupal does not support it.

Site Management

• Drupal has free added on for Workflow management. Joomla not known to have one.
• Drupal has inbuilt Translation manager. Joomla has a Free ad on for the same
• Drupal has more granular privilege management

Joomla and Drupal

Drupal fails on some access as Shopping Carts, Event Calendars, Document Management, template and Themes commercial community. The majority of these items are functions or features which are considered lacking in the Drupal CMS. Considering the other CMS, Joomla fails to provide in such elements as user permission, SEO,SSL compatibility ,content management, multi-site management, and standard's compliance. Moreover, considering the architectural and functional feature of these two CMS some people finds Drupal is more potential than Joomla ,because Drupal succeeds in architecture centric elements, since some users assume it is more important to have architectural feature in the CMS. However, if you want to make a quick sell where function, third party integration, and eye candy is necessary right out the box...Joomla still has the advantage.

Finally there are some features of these two CMS which decisively helps the users to decide which one they should use as per their need. As, Joomla have Community Builder ; A solid component, but one that really needs an SEF extension to enable YouTube-style URLs ; Virtue mart and an integration of OSCommerce ; forums; multimedia ; photo galleries ; event calendars ;themes and templates ; blogs ; document and management ; external integration ; commercial community ;general community ; great graphical interface in separate area of website ; learning curve One of the very easiest CMS systems to learn and customize ; as well as Producing a gorgeous site with a lot of functionality is a relatively easy task with Joomla. Besides, Drupal have very impressive community features, SEO , a native and very smooth forum, Drupal Video and podcast, photo galleries as a default module and a Gallery2 integration, blogs and user permissions, Unlimited categories and subcategories of content management , multisite management ,external integration ,documentation, SSL compatibility ,internationalization , standard compliance , general community , ease of use ,learning curve and good speed.

What do you foresee in the post-Drupal 5 and post-Joomla 1.5 era? It's tough to say, but I'm betting Drupal will likely become very competitive in functions as its architectural element. Then again Joomla have strong prospects as it continues to shed its roots with Mambo. Interesting times ahead to see how the comparison between Joomla and Drupal goes on, and which attributes determines the superiority.