[consulting] CMS comparison

[gunnar]

Drupal - the well hung web communication application suite.....

;-P

Gunnar

> I call it a community erector set.
>   -Henri
> 
> 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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Gunnar Langemark
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