Prof. Victor, i have to disagree with you (although not entirely), i asked for large enterprises using drupal, and Reinier listed the White house (clearly the White House can not be listed as an enterprise), interesting thing, anyone trying to convince you about Drupal, will tell you, how the White House is using Drupal. And it was widely reported in the media. how the White House website was relaunched using Drupal. The reason they selected Drupal had nothing to do with it being a good platform, more to do with cronyism. The company that helped Obama with his social media campaign is a Drupal shop.
I have used Drupal and its a good CMS, but i can not claim its the best CMS, simply because the White House is using it. back to large enterprises, there is a relationship between alexa ranking and large enterprises, although that relationship is not fool proof. I came across a website which designs sign posts, and their slogan is "A business with no sign, is a sign of no business". This holds water, for online presence. If your enterprise, has no website, or few visitors (hence high ranking on alexa - high means bad), chances are you are not doing well. They are large enterprises which dont need a website, e.g. arms dealers, oil companies. I checked British Petroleum, and its alexa ranking is 2,500. By the way, the alexa ranking can give you an idea of how many users visit a website, which can be an indicator. When the world bank is measuring poverty, they look at several indicators, not one. So in this case, alexa ranking is just an indicator, and is not meant to be the alpha and omega. craig's list, one of the top 20 viewed websites in the world, is using custom code. They actually have an interesting caching method, which the owner plans to release to the open source community (he actually said, he ll release part of it) If Drupal is as good as Reinier wants us to believe, why are large enterprises ignoring it? something is not adding up. Cavin On Sep 1, 2010, at 24:11, Mugarura Cavin wrote: do the above numbers say something ? No, the above numbers say nothing in the context of enterprise size that was mentioned by Reinier. Alexa mainly measures traffic to a website. If you want to contest Reiniers claim, do your research properly and consider a well balanced set indicators like company size, turnover, profit, number of clients, number of staff, line of business, global impact etc and cross relate with the CMC they are using. Then inform us about your conclusions. You can consult me, as your old professor, for advice Victor
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