The market of CMSes has become hotter since the web 2.0 movement. Drupal and Joomla the top 2 open source CMSes are consolidating in the market. This consolidation could be beneficial to software giants Microsoft and Google; therefore Microsoft and Google could secretly finance Drupal and Joomla.
Drupal and Joomla are the top 2 open source CMSes, are consolidating in the market (whatever that means). This consolidation could be beneficial to the CIA since the CIA would love to be pulling all the strings so they could install backdoors into the software and have complete access to all the content in the CMSes; therefore the CIA could secretly finance Drupal and Joomla.
No, really. First, what does "the top 2 open source CMSes are consolidating in the market" mean? I think the author meant to say something along the lines of many people shopping for an open source CMS tend to pick Drupal or Joomla, giving them both a large chunk of the market share.
I fail to see why these two open source CMS packages is beneficial to either Microsoft or Google. Microsoft's bread and butter is Windows and Office and they won't lose this any time soon since the corporate world is quite entrenched (or as some might say, a victim of vendor lock-in). Google's primary source of income is from advertisers placing targeted ads on search results (which Google will only keep showing lots of as long as they continue to be the number one place to go when you're looking for something on the web and as long as advertisers still consider it worthwhile to advertise via Google). Drupal and Joomla could disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow and neither company would have any issue whatsoever. In fact, I bet most employees at both companies and almost all the stockholders wouldn't even notice.
Even if the success of these two open source CMSes were beneficial to Google or Microsoft, that doesn't mean that is the reason why Google and Microsoft could secretly finance them. No, because both Google and Microsoft are the 800 pound gorillas in the room with billions of dollars to throw around, that is how they could do the funding. Why would they do the funding? I don't know. I don't think it would help them directly.
(Though it is worth noting that Google runs their Summer of Code program so Google is not-so-secretly funding many open source projects, including Drupal and Microsoft.)
