Mike Meiser wrote: > It's funny my gut reaction was that we had an imposter posting under Mike > Hudack, I've never known him to be so blunt and harsh. > > But then I've got to say, as a non-programmer... drupal, plone and the whole > CMS thing... are atrocities that developers foist onto everyday users... "oh > but look at how great it is, and what you can do with it!"
How do they foist them on you? Is someone forcing you to install and use a CMS? Years ago everyone thought that a CMS was a solution to a successful and easy to use web site, but it's just a small piece of the puzzle. > I cannot TELL you how many times I've had someone foist drupal, plone or > some other CMS on me when all I needed was a PBwiki or a wordpress install. Some people/organizations need a hell of a lot more than a wiki or blogging software... > 99.99% of people don't want or need a big swiss army knife of a CMS system. > They need the single tool they need and that's it. I guess I fit into that 0.01%... > It's absolutely nothing persoanl with drupal... I actually want drupal and > plone and all those other great CMS to succeed... but unless you have a > developer on call 24x7 drupal is not for the every user. And some people do have a developer on-call 24x7... I've worked with a lot of companies that would have probably been better off hiring someone to install, customize & support Drupal, but instead either had one guy build something in-house that did 10% of what Drupal did (and had just one person knowing the undocumented code) or spent over a million on some portal solution that everyone constantly complains about. Pete
