At the university where I work, there is a LOT of momentum behind Drupal. A large and active users group, and dozens of departmental sites running it. I've succeeded in building a few departmental sites with Django but still feel like it's an uphill battle convincing managers to agree to go with a relative unknown, both in terms of language (Python) and platform. Things like the announcement that whitehouse.gov switched to Drupal just cement the deal in many managers' minds.
I'd like to put together a summary sheet and blog post summarizing all the reasons why I feel Django is the better choice for many sites, to try and help make the "sale" to managers. I have my own set of reasons but am not going to include them in this message. I'm especially interested in hearing from people who have done development in both Django and Drupal (or WordPress or Joomla, or other). Would be interested in hearing comments on things like: - Overall development time - Ease of making changes to templates - Ease of finding 3rd party functionality (modules vs. reusable apps) - Server performance - Ease of building data models that reflect the needs of the organization - Ease of finding other developers to take on a project when someone leaves - User friendliness (admin and editorial interface) - Ease of getting the system to do highly custom tasks - Ease of upgrades - Security etc. etc. - anything at all. Please indicate whether it's OK to quote you (I can paraphrase you if not) Thanks in advance, Scot --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
