I'm in the middle of developing a fair size app for the travel industry using cake, so am reasonably comfortable at this point with cake.
I love it, actually, for what it has taught me, and what it enables me to accomplish, and am grateful to the skilled and kind developers who give of their time to make this happen. Recently, I've been requested to develop two simple sites for service businesses. One requires a very basic cms functionality. The other requires very basic store functionality for 10-20 products. Neither, at the current time, require huge systems. I'm trying to decide which direction to take with these clients. On one hand, I can install an opensource cms/shop with a paid template and within a very short time have a site ready to train them on, and they can do more than they would ever want to with it. The price would also be pretty cheap because it is very little labour. However, these open source products are so overbloated with non-needed features, and as a result, so much more difficult to support and enhance because of the code volume, that I am a little apprehensive taking on an elephant with all the support implications. On the other hand, I can develop a cake based system for them. This route would take longer than delivering an off-the-shelf cms, and as a result would cost the client more, but in the end I would deliver them a system much leaner and easier to support and expand. This is a classic case of a client who needs some cms functionality, but not all of drupal or Joomla; or, he needs some ecommerce functionality but not all of oscommerce or zencart. The issue is, I'm not sure what the "right" decision making process is in deciding which direction to go? What's in the best interest for the client? I'm sure many people are faced with this situation often. What issues would you consider in making the decision? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
