<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Tom Geller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@tomgeller.com">tom@tomgeller.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Folks,<br>
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You may have seen my blog post about the challenges of Drupal's opportunity, at <a href="http://tomgeller.com/content/challenge-opportunity" target="_blank">http://tomgeller.com/content/challenge-opportunity</a> . Behind that post's implied pessimism is the belief that Drupal really is a booming technology, and that it's wise to strike while the iron is hot. A personal question follows: How can *I* capture this opportunity in a way that's both satisfying and sustainable?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Drupal continues up the ladder to becoming a "mature software project"; Like Subversion is a mature software project. I've implemented and evangelized each for the last half decade or more. I don't bother evangelizing subversion anymore, but I still count on it daily as a strong link in the tool chain. I still evangelize Drupal, but not as much or as passionately as I used to. This is in part because I don't need to. I still love it, use it, and recommend it. It is just a natural progression of a maturing piece of technology.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Mature software projects enjoy long tenures; they become entrenched, mainstay links in solution tool chains. Markets build up around them that would otherwise not exist. But they are also vulnerable. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Today's {thirty-two-year-olds}, once convinced that nothing could compare or compete with subversion's technological marvels, are often found among the middle adopter waves to the githubs & bitbuckets & other shiny new legacy-free inventions by today's {twenty-two-year-olds}, and {twelve-year-olds}. It is valuable & insightful to weigh the relative capabilities & benefits of the likes of Go lang (new) and erlang (definitely not new) compared to php, and "Could web.go or webmachine be better suited than Drupal for building my Next Big Idea?" and on and on and on.</div>
<div><br></div><div>{braces emphasize gross age generalizations, for illustration}</div><div><br></div><div><meta charset="utf-8">just another thirty-two-year-old,</div><div>matt j. sorenson (@emjayess)</div><div><br></div>
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