[consulting] Staying Current

[Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg]

>  I'm talking about big sites with lots of customization, where clients
might
> spend well over 100k on customization.  I'm just questioning whether those
> who build those sites are building in -- or being upfront -- about the
cost
> of upgrading to D6 and then D7.

And I wonder whether that car salesman really knew he was selling a lemon.

It strikes me that we've moved away from "Should Drupal be supported for
more than two releases?" to "Are there salespeople that mislead clients
about the full cost of acquiring some piece of technology?". And since the
answer to the second question is so obvious, what are we even talking about?

Of course there are shops that sell crap as gold, and if a client doesn't
know this an still throws down $100k on a site from a huckster (I'm assuming
only a huckster could sell $100k worth of anything without a rock solid
reputation)? Well, I have a bridge in Brooklyn (or maybe a CDO/CDS or some
other exotic "security") that they'd be stupid not to buy a piece of.

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2009/3/29 Sam Cohen <sam at samcohen.com>:
>>
>>
>> If I do those things I hope to end up with sites that have very little
>> customization. That doesn't eliminate upgrade problems, but it makes the
>> upgrade much much more manageble.
>
> Yes, but then we're talking about simple sites.
>
>  I'm talking about big sites with lots of customization, where clients
might
> spend well over 100k on customization.  I'm just questioning whether those
> who build those sites are building in -- or being upfront -- about the
cost
> of upgrading to D6 and then D7.
>
>
>>
>> 2009/3/29 Sam Cohen <sam at samcohen.com>
>>>
>>> I understand the logic in what you're saying, but it makes me wonder
>>> whether or not in the real world, big site developers who are now
building
>>> complex sites in Drupal 6, with lots of customization, are building into
>>> their fees and being upfront with clients about what it's going to cost
to
>>> upgrade that site to Drupal 7.
>>>
>>
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