SubHub to unveil Drupal app store

Web hosting and content management provider, SubHub is set to become a reseller of Drupal open source content management systems (CMS), reports The Whir.

Paid Content.org says Drupal has a loyal community of volunteer developers who have written thousands of custom modules.

However, SubHubs' business model change may prove controversial in some quarters of the Drupal community.

“The Drupal community is split about having an app store,” explains SubHub co-founder Miles Galliford.

“The pure open source crowd don't like the idea, but the majority believe WordPress' success has happened since Matt Mullenweg [unveiled] Automattic [the commercial arm of the blog software].

“We have discussed what we are doing with many of the big hitters in the Drupal community, including [original developer] Dries Buyeart and they are very supportive of what we are doing.”

PR Log reveals that the app store, which the first of its kind for Drupal modules, enables Web site owners to add functionality by selecting an app and adding it to their SubHub Web site.

Initial apps include MailChimp, Google Analytics, content feeds and YouTube. Some of the apps are free, such as Google Analytics, and some of them will carry a small recurring charge.