<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gerhard Killesreiter</b> <<a href="mailto:gerhard@killesreiter.de">gerhard@killesreiter.de</a>> wrote:</span><br><div> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> And as for trying to build a business around Drupal... well,<br>> there's surely a lot of money in helping people upgrade their<br>> installations.</blockquote><div><br><a href="http://Pando.com">Pando.com</a> just got funded for $7M...parts of the website run on Drupal.
NowPublic.com, which has gone through some pains over the past 2 years, just got a round of funding. There are others out there.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> But personally I want to be able to offer a<br>> reliable, up-to-date, feature-rich hosting environment, and<br>> all Drupal promises me is a world of hurt.<br>><br><br>I haven't heard Boris, James, or Adrian cry very loudly recently. Maybe
<br>it is more a quiet sobbing.<br></blockquote></div><br>*sobs*<br><br>...but it has nothing to do with Drupal. Drupal is the *easy* part of hosting. Well, maybe not the easiest. As James stated elsewhere, we run backports with matching patches in the forward version only -- no forking, but continual improvement.
<br><br>4.5 was painful (Bryght helped finalize multisite and ran multisite-compatable modules). 4.6 was/is a bit less painful (multisite standard, maintain .install files ourselves). 4.7 is going to be great (install profiles in beta plus dependencies, form API for fantastic theme/module level modifications).
<br><br>-- <br>Boris Mann<br>Vancouver 778-896-2747<br>San Francisco 415-367-3595<br>Skype borismann<br><a href="http://www.bryght.com">http://www.bryght.com</a>