Comments on: Acquia on Why Web Publishers Love Drupal—And How the Startup Balances Business With Belonging to an Open-Source Community

By: S Slotfeldt

S Slotfeldt — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:28:40 +0000

As a relative novice, I would be at loss what to do with a CMS such as Drupal or Joomla. The only way I would consider using Drupal would be as part of a template generator, such as Artisteer.

By: poopoo

poopoo — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:14:22 +0000

Drupal is only an attractive option for medium-size companies and projects because it is the only option. Drupal is mind-bogglingly complex for the novice computer user. Drupal’s framework doesn’t make things easier for a programmer or “tech guy” it actually makes things more time consuming and frustrating.

Often to create a robust site, so many user-contributed modules are required that the modules start to slow down the site and conflict with each other. Soon the Drupal site finds itself crippled by its own diversity and slow as hell.

After installing and configuring about 12 Drupal sites myself I am so frustrated with the platform I no longer recommend it to clients unless they 1) absolutely need the functionality of a particular Drupal module 2) specifically request drupal

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[...] Acquia on Why Web Publishers Love Drupal—And How the Startup Balances Business With Belonging to a… You might think that Acquia is to Drupal as Red Hat is to Linux, but that analogy doesn’t quite work. For one thing, Red Hat charges for its version of Linux, while all versions of Drupal, including Acquia’s, are free. Imagine that Linus Torvalds wasn’t merely the gatekeeper for the Linux kernel but also chief technology officer at a company aiming to be the central source for Linux support; that’s the somewhat precarious position Dries Buytaert, and therefore Acquia, occupies. So the company has to be extra careful not to make changes that might alienate the thousands of volunteer Drupal developers. “In every major action, we talk about how do we make sure the community stays together,” says Erickson. “But Dries and Drupal are so tied at the heart, it’s in Dries’s DNA for that to happen.” [...]

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By: gheo

gheo — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:26:27 +0000

great one,and well doen.keep up

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:35:23 +0000

While it is true that someone who feels intellectually taxed just writing email is not going to be able to install drupal, it is also true that drupal is one of the easiest CMS offerings to deploy. The value proposition of drupal is such that it no longer makes any sense to create a brochure-ware site of static HTML pages.

By: Jose Onate

Jose Onate — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:51:03 +0000

“But if, like a growing group of publishers, you’re somewhere in the middle-with a moderate budget [and] ambitious technical requirements[…]” – That phrase represents most of small businesses and startups today gravitating towards tools like Drupal in an effort to reign on expenses without sacrificing their ambitious technical requirements.

I find that clients that contact our development company online to request Drupal have already done extensive homework to compare all sorts of options. Most haven’t used Drupal before, come from MS technologies and their original plan was to build their own platform from scratch until the reality of costs and timeframes sent them on the quest that ultimately leads to Drupal; even as it represents an unfamiliar, albeit promising territory.

On Acquia,
Acquia’s mission and approach has been a blessing to the commercial aspect of the Drupal community in providing a virtual safety net for project managers and stakeholders who used to shy away from Open Source out of fear of being left to their own devices with unsupported software.
If nothing else, the existence and success of Acquia is paramount in allowing Drupal to compete at the same level with “real” software (read: software backed by a big-enough liable company). For our small development company, the silent aura is that if at any point in the development process the client loses any level of trust in our team, there is always an Acquia-or-similar to fall back on. With that in mind, project managers have a much easier job selling the platform to upper management (and themselves), giving Drupal a fighting chance to shine for itself, and often coming up easily on top.

Drupal is not easy,
Neither is building your own professional, modular, advanced framework. Once a company faces the need for a brilliantly architectured CMS, and realizes that neither alternative to build one or buy one seems particularly attractive, it becomes apparent that Drupal is important specifically because it is so much more complex than WordPress or similar one-trick engines.

IMHO and from where I’m standing, the place of Drupal in today’s tech world is not amongst simple engines, but as a solid, richly engineered and complex framework for medium-sized web projects. From this angle, WordPress (nor anything else I’ve seen) can compete at the same level.

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