Correct me if I am wrong but drupal is just a software Content
Management System tool ... a backend framework for developers to use in
integrating systems such as databases, email, RSS, telephony, websites
etc.
You don't have anything until you create something with it which of
course entails billable man hours. It can be used to lace everything
together... if you already have the appropriate subcomponents. If you
don't, you have to create them to.
I know that with a much smaller analogous system Salesforce ... which
is only a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system, it costs $8000
worth of professional labor to configure Saleforce for use by a small
local non-profit arts org so they can run their organization, (Manage
events, volunteers, f_und raising, communications, website etc.)_
10 million does sound like a lot and it wouldn't surprise me if gouging
was involved but I do think there had to be some substantive development
labor cost involved in using drupal. It's not an off the shelf ready
to use end user product. It's a developer's tool.
db
mike wrote:
The software infrastructure was supplied by drupal...which was my point.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Chris Dunford <[email protected]> wrote:
The hardware was supplied by the government from what I read...this was
JUST
for the coding etc.
I meant the software infrastructure, not the hardware infrastructure. My
point was that it wasn't just for the web site; there's a lot of code behind
it that you can't see. "Just" design and coding
can be expensive if there's a lot of it.
*************************************************************************
** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy **
** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **
*************************************************************************
*************************************************************************
** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy **
** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **
*************************************************************************
*************************************************************************
** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy **
** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **
*************************************************************************
