"If Drupal is as good as Reinier wants us to believe, why are large enterprises ignoring it?"
>. now thats a dumb statement from a man who has a penchant for tossing them around aimlessly . Large enterprises make poor choices more than most. they are blinded by their size and smothered in politics. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Mugarura Cavin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > -- Sanga M. Collins Network Engineering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Google Voice: (954) 324-1365 E- fax: (435) 578 7411
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