Can you comment on this, please? I am just going to setup some more Drupal site and got a bit frustrated.
From someone whose name and voice you won't hear much on this here list. Tell that so-called "admin" to go and take a looooong vacation and then come back, s/he apparently needs one, stress can cloud judgment.
From my personal experience, any framework/application is only as good as the intentions and abilities of the implementor. If your admin dismisses the viability of Drupal I have to question their abilities or intent for using it. In the past three years I have implemented, among other things:
* an infrastructure for users from fundamentalist/oppressive countries to communicate without fear of repercussion (Bloggers without Borders). BwoB is in active use inside some NGOs and would not have been possible with any other application or application framework in the extend and ease of implementation as it is with Drupal. * a complete solution, back- and frontend, for a commercial entity (Socialtext, www.socialtext.com). Implementation and responding to customer (in-house customers, you know, the ones whose reason is inverse proportional to your workload) demands was lightning fast while I supported this piece in-house. * Not one but three personal/small-community sites that are actually maintained by their owners these days. Try that with ANY other contender. "Hey, so I set this up, here's a URL to read up on maintenance, have a nice day". Works with Drupal. All in all, I'd hedge a bet, that this "admin" never REALLY looked at Drupal, never really set one site up, and never had to support anything else outside of his/her own limited area of knowledge. Tell them to either go and get a clue or contact me for some good old-fashioned lashing with the LART bat. jonas