[consulting] Successful large enterprise deployments of Drupal

[Zack Rosen]

> I would say the same thing if this wasn't coming from the person  
> who makes
> the purchasing decisions and has to deal with the lawyers, the  
> vendors, the
> IT guys, etc. FUD doesn't go away on it's own, and someone needs to be
> making the effort to educate others on it. Would be nice if someone  
> had a PR
> budget to put together specific materials, reviewed by legal  
> sources, that
> could be handed to a client or their lawyers.

Yes, agreed.  This is something that I will be working on.

> Case studies and benchmarks are interesting, but limited in that  
> performance
> is affected by a huge number of factors specific to the  
> environment. Trellon
> is working on something a little more significant which I will talk  
> about at
> another time.

True.  But getting out some sort of benchmarks about how Drupal  
performs (even if in a specific environment) would be very helpful in  
marketing the platform to high load users.

-Zack