[consulting] CMS comparison

[Matt Westgate]

On May 10, 2006, at 10:28 PM, Henri Poole wrote:

> I call it a community erector set.

I call it The People's Viagra

(hee hee)



>
> Angela Byron <drupal-consulting at webchick.net> wrote: Khalid B wrote:
> >> ah, the perfect tag line "Drupal --- the toolbox for your web site
> >> development" ;-)
> >
> > Perfect, except for the "toolbox" part.
> >
> > The mental image is of a what you have in the basement/garage with
> > all sort of rusty tools...
>
> Geez, Khalid! You should take better care of your tools! ;)
>
> I tried to explain Drupal to my mom yesterday, and the best analogy I
> could come up with was that Drupal is like Legos (or I guess "building
> blocks" to use a non-copyrighted term ;)). Drupal developers are  
> people
> who work on building new types of blocks or enhancing existing ones to
> meet their own or their clients' needs. Some are working on more
> "all-purpose" blocks, like the trusty red square, and some are working
> on more specialized blocks such as castle turrets and such.
>
> Then other people take these blocks and build whatever they want with
> them (houses, cars, robots...), without having to build the blocks
> themselves. I guess that makes the docs team the folks who write the
> little instruction books that come with the set, and consulting
> companies are the folks who dig through the big communal bucket to  
> find
> the right blocks and assemble them together. ;)
>
> I don't know if it's a particularly strong analogy, but I think  
> it's the
> first time she ever understood what it is I do all day. ;)
>
> -Angie
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