[consulting] CMS comparison

[Laura Scott]

On May 10, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Khalid B wrote:

> On 5/10/06, Jenny Hsueh <jenny at ondemand-network.com> wrote:
>> Fully agree with what John said here. if creativity and unbound  
>> playing
>> field is a decided focus of Drupal, then  for us on this consulting
>> list  we have to come up with plan B if we to continue using   
>> drupal as
>> a business solution or plan C to keep drupal as a sandbox toy for  
>> ideas
>> inspirations.... [snip]

> [snip]...The last thing I want is for Drupal to become a slave to  
> corporate
> interest, no matter how lucrative this market is ...

Personally, I take Drupal's rapid evolution sans reverse  
compatibility as a given. The core is changing so quickly and quite  
radically, I do not want to be "slave" to the older code bases,  
either. Already 4.7 has answered so many problems we ran into with  
4.6. And the current development discussion on the next release  
(4.8/5.0?) bodes well for some fabulous improvements, especially in  
the area of scalability -- which, let's face it, is one of the  
challenges we've all probably faced at least once, if not many times.

Part of what we at our company are selling is that the client is  
"buying into" a community-developed platform, and that one of the  
great advantages, aside from free code, is free ongoing development.  
The cost is having to go through sometimes painful upgrades --  
especially if the client wants hacked modules -- but the gain is  
having new functionality and features that previously were not  
available, leastwise not without investing in code work directly.

Laura