[drupal-docs] Drupal vs Mambo

[Liza Sabater]

On Aug 03 2005, at 12:06 PM, Laura Scott wrote:

>  In other words, focusing on what Drupal can do for the person who 
> knows nothing about Drupal (and you may have noticed that even the 
> vast majority of slashdot geeks had never heard of it in the 
> fundraising thread a few weeks ago) rather than pointing out the 
> specs.

>  Parallel: You can sell a car by talking about features -- what size 
> the engine is, what rating the tires have, and so on. Or you can sell 
> a car by talking about benefits -- what it does for you, how easy it 
> is to use, and so on. Both are valid, but the "benefits" side could 
> use some fleshing out, it seems to me.
>

Great point Laura, and to expand on that,

It's the difference between communicating a product as a world of 
possible outcomes (target markets) vs. presenting a product as a to-do 
list (features).

It's not like talking about the features is not a good thing. I just 
think that the role of marketing is to present a potential fully-formed 
future  --what can be done with a product-- as opposed to just a set of 
features that then leave the potential user "hanging" by trying to 
figure out what kind of future they can build with the product. And I 
guess this translates into the way the product has been developed up 
until now.

Drupal is feature heavy thanks to its module; but sometimes those 
features do not work with each other. Having used more than a few 
modules beyond the core, I get the feeling module developers for Drupal 
seem to focus too much on getting the feature they want to work without 
thinking how they can expand on other modules to serve a certain set of 
needs within a target audience (or maket). That's the difference 
between focusing on what a person can do with Drupal versus developing 
the software's specs.

I hope that, if anything, this new "ABOUT" will set the tone for future 
development of the product.


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Liza Sabater
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