... that they seldom come true. And in the age of the forever web making bold but inevitably false predictions is eventually going to get fingers poked at you.

Almost a year ago now, podcasting jockey Chris Pirillo predicted that Drupal was dying because of a shortage of 'intelligent' developers.

I don't know if he's forgotten his economics lessons, but low supply means one of two things:

• Nobody wants the product
• Demand exceeds supply

First, Drupal is not dying. Drupal hasn't yet reached its apex. The reason that Drupal developers are in short supply is that there aren't enough of them.