[consulting] preparing clients for Drupal 5 obsolesence

[Innodus Devel]

Hi you all.

My 2cents. Security is not a concern for everybody. Most of my customers 
doesn't allow anyone to access their sites, only them manage the content 
and functionallities, and some even don't manage anything. I still have 
some sites at 4.6 or 4.7 since the customer feels happy with their site 
the way it is.

Many small and medium sized european companies are worried at all about 
web technologies, which is a pity, but it is also a reality. It's just 
up to us, web consultants, to think in terms of drupal 5 or 6, or CCK or 
nodereferences, or jQuery or whatever. The only techy words that 
customers usually know are Google, positioning (not SEO at all) and 
Flash; luckily my customers have added "Drupal" to that huge list of 
technological concepts.

Telling a customer that it should upgrade every year to a new drupal and 
that it could cost something between 600 and whatever (2000?) euros is 
just scaring people. It won't have any sense "per-se" for the customer. 
Not even if in 3 years time we got hyper-supra-mega-drupal-9 and they 
are still on drupal 5 but working with no problems.

Obviously would be so long to explain the benefits of investing on a 
year-base upgrade, mostly reason we all perfectly know, understand and 
subscribe on that list, that having a customer "sensitive" to that 
investment, basically considering how much they saved having a site 
built only with the cost of consultants and designers, would be the 
ideal scenario.

IMHO. Best regards :-)

      Jordi Trujillo Rius
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      jorditr at innodus.com
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