[kstrauser]

I see what you mean, but I counter with Plone. It's been around for 24 years, and the annual Plone Conference is coming up in a couple months. Still, you don't see a whole lot of new Plone sites rolling out these days, and there's no Automattic-scale company with click-here-to-deploy convenience.

Nothing against Plone (although I was very happy to put its foundation layer, Zope, in my rear view mirror). It's a fine program that's very good at what it does. But just because something's been around a while doesn't mean that it's still vibrant and growing.

[tptacek]

Plone never had anything even resembling Rails' popularity.

[kstrauser]

So true. Still, you can't judge that from how long it's been around.

[hnfong]

That's why RoR was a fad and Plone isn't.

Check out the charts from Google Trends some time.