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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/20/12 3:13 PM, Sam Cohen wrote:<br>
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doing it? Explain to them the consequences as they may<br>
have no idea. Tell them: You know that if you do this, then I
can't do<br>
Feature X nor Y for you.<br>
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Fred<br>
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to some extent this may make sense from the University's point of
view. Common elements on the site, consistent behaviors, etc. And
if they're getting Acquia to do some level of support for this, it
can make a lot of sense. Having to support long-term a set of web
sites that have a lot of custom modules can be challenging,
particularly when the time comes to do a Drupal upgrade.<br>
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Now -- of course, the question is - which modules, and what happens
when you the point where there is NOT a module for that? And of
course, Universities often have other data sources that they want to
draw into the web site, where there almost certainly will NOT be a
module for that. <br>
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I'm definitely letting them know the consequences. <br>
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I'm mostly curious if this is a trend that others have seen,
particularly where Acquia is involved as the host. (I'm not
clear on whether Acquia has encouraged them to do this or they
decided on their own.)<br>
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But it seems Drupal is growing enormously in the University
market, and Acquia in the hosting market, so I wanted to know
if others have run into this particular issue, which is
basically a University taking a Drupal Gardens approach to all
the related sites. <br>
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Sam<br>
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