I have been developing for Drupal for 5 years, with a portfolio of many large scale projects. I am also the author of some popular Drupal modules.
With all that said, in my experience, Drupal offers zero TCO or ETA advantage over Django or Symfony on any medium to large project. A lot of the great things you may hear about Drupal are coming from either (a) Non-developers or (b) People who have staked their careers on Drupal.
A few reasons why Drupal cannot be taken seriously include...
I have been playing around with drupal among other crappy content management systems such as Joomla 4 years ago I gave up and that is when we decided to build our own content management system from scratch, what we wanted to achieve was an extremely easy way to integrate templates without having to be a rocket scientist, we decided to use Smarty for that, we wanted to build our own plugins that were guaranteed to work with each other without introducing security issues, now 4 years down the line we have a content management that is mature and rich but is still simple enough to use without having to read through a library of documentation to get it to do what you want it to do. We have been thinking of open sourcing objectCMS but decided against it because of the problems that can arise with 3rd parties developing modules, so we decided to keep all development within Systrix (http://www.systrix.com ).
Karim, your site looks great at first but it has a huge navigation bar with mostly non-functional links -- a show-stopper. The site does a great job of promoting objectCMS up to the point where it 1) fails to describe its licensing in any way and 2) doesn't offer a way to download it.
That's completely amateur, with slick gradients and rounded corners attached, especially for a SEO company.
Too bad, I was intrigued, hoping to find a CMS for a large media archive.
Drupal cannot currently be taken seriously (Score:5, Informative)
I have been developing for Drupal for 5 years, with a portfolio of many large scale projects. I am also the author of some popular Drupal modules.
With all that said, in my experience, Drupal offers zero TCO or ETA advantage over Django or Symfony on any medium to large project. A lot of the great things you may hear about Drupal are coming from either (a) Non-developers or (b) People who have staked their careers on Drupal.
A few reasons why Drupal cannot be taken seriously include...
1) Lack of unified model
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Karim, your site looks great at first but it has a huge navigation bar with mostly non-functional links -- a show-stopper. The site does a great job of promoting objectCMS up to the point where it 1) fails to describe its licensing in any way and 2) doesn't offer a way to download it.
That's completely amateur, with slick gradients and rounded corners attached, especially for a SEO company.
Too bad, I was intrigued, hoping to find a CMS for a large media archive.