One key thing to remember is that Django and Drupal (and the other things you mentioned) are quite different things. You are comparing apples to oranges which makes the sell harder.
Drupal is a CMS and has a different target audience. It has the level of complexity that comes from solving the CMS problems. Drupal like most CMS's will allow you to do things the Drupal way quite easily. As soon as you stray from that path, you'll be in trouble. I recommend understanding your audience and the difference in tools and how this affects them. -- Andy McKay www.clearwind.ca On 2009-10-31, at 9:44 AM, shacker <shac...@birdhouse.org> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
