On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:19 AM, John VanDyk <jvandyk@iastate.edu> wrote:
At 1:29 PM +0200 4/28/08, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
Drupal is now a mature project and people start to rely on it for projects that have a longer life span than the release process of Drupal.
My understanding is that these kind of people are the target market for Acquia's commercially supported Carbon distribution.
John's comment goes to the heart of the question. I think the security is admirable in Drupal. I want to remove that entirely from the discussion, because moving target or not, we have the best security we could possibly have. But I think the central policy point worth discussing is: in order to obtain a Drupal capable of actually being used in the real world for production sites, must one be forced to opt for commerical products / versions because the real cost is enormous? I use Ubuntu, the free, open source, off-the-shelf release, and I am not forced to pay for a "Red Hat" version to rely upon it. The question being raised is this: Is Drupal being driven to be such a fast moving target that real time-to-market costs can only be afforded by large shops? If the answer were yes, then we are forced to examine whether economic/financial/corporate interests are at work pushing it in that direction. Instead of sweeping the issue under the carpet. Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar