Submitted by Botchagalupe (not verified) on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 15:59.
Do you think we should put the CMS term to bed? *
I am not sure “CMS” is ready to go to bed yet. I agree with some of the other comments on this post and don’t see a better way to describe it either. What Drupal needs is a new definition that sets it apart from the other YACMS’s. The problem with Drupal is it’s marketing and it needs to move from a project to product status.
Drupal is extremely powerful as we all know. However, its power is hard to describe and not obviously realized by newbie’s. For example, I had to pay a Drupal coach to teach before I understood the true value of CCK and Views. I would have never understood this without having a one-on-one session from an expert. I think one of the areas that could be explored is Druapal’s power to exploit a taxonomies. I think one of Drupal’s true powers is it’s ability to glue om the fly taxonomies with a relational database structure on the fly.
Would it be possible to grab some of that team collaboration social software market opportunity for the Drupal community? *
Druapal needs to be easier to use out-of-the-box. I have not looked at V6 yet but modules like CCK, Views, and Wiki-tools need to be part of the base install maybe the core. Also, it was darn near impossible for me to setup wiki as an input format (not really - but harder than I thought it would be). There wasn’t really a good how-to on this. I had to bounce through a few different blogs and then make some guesses. If we want Druapl to be prime-time something like this needs to be turn-key. I love Drupal and would like to use it for every project I use, however I don’t want to become a Drupal core expert to be able to use it. When I was being coached on how to use Druapl, my coach asked me if I knew PHP and when I said no he almost ended the session. I don’t have to know .Net to use Sharepoint.
Why isn’t there already a billion dollar Drupal services ecosystem for team collaboration? What’s missing? *
Billion dollar service organizations based on open source projects are one-in-a-million. Beyond the first and second tier of open sources (i.e., os, and databases) there aren’t a lot of name brand oss service organizations in general. The successfully tier 1/2 oss products all have a nemesis. Linux has Windows, MySQL/PosgreSQL have Oracle. Drupal needs an enemy that is not Joomla or Wordpress.
Obviously these are tough questions that you guys need to address. When I have no idea on how to do something I look for someone else that is having success. Maybe pick up some clues from Alfresco and SugarCRM. I could probably spend all day talking about this (I love Drupal). Unfortunately my day jobs doesn’t allow me to do that.
BTW, just pay Gartner 50k and they will gladly give CMS a new name :)
I am not sure “CMS” is ready to go to bed yet. I agree with some of the other comments on this post and don’t see a better way to describe it either. What Drupal needs is a new definition that sets it apart from the other YACMS’s. The problem with Drupal is it’s marketing and it needs to move from a project to product status.
Drupal is extremely powerful as we all know. However, its power is hard to describe and not obviously realized by newbie’s. For example, I had to pay a Drupal coach to teach before I understood the true value of CCK and Views. I would have never understood this without having a one-on-one session from an expert. I think one of the areas that could be explored is Druapal’s power to exploit a taxonomies. I think one of Drupal’s true powers is it’s ability to glue om the fly taxonomies with a relational database structure on the fly.
Druapal needs to be easier to use out-of-the-box. I have not looked at V6 yet but modules like CCK, Views, and Wiki-tools need to be part of the base install maybe the core. Also, it was darn near impossible for me to setup wiki as an input format (not really - but harder than I thought it would be). There wasn’t really a good how-to on this. I had to bounce through a few different blogs and then make some guesses. If we want Druapl to be prime-time something like this needs to be turn-key. I love Drupal and would like to use it for every project I use, however I don’t want to become a Drupal core expert to be able to use it. When I was being coached on how to use Druapl, my coach asked me if I knew PHP and when I said no he almost ended the session. I don’t have to know .Net to use Sharepoint.
Billion dollar service organizations based on open source projects are one-in-a-million. Beyond the first and second tier of open sources (i.e., os, and databases) there aren’t a lot of name brand oss service organizations in general. The successfully tier 1/2 oss products all have a nemesis. Linux has Windows, MySQL/PosgreSQL have Oracle. Drupal needs an enemy that is not Joomla or Wordpress.
Obviously these are tough questions that you guys need to address. When I have no idea on how to do something I look for someone else that is having success. Maybe pick up some clues from Alfresco and SugarCRM. I could probably spend all day talking about this (I love Drupal). Unfortunately my day jobs doesn’t allow me to do that.
BTW, just pay Gartner 50k and they will gladly give CMS a new name :)
My 2 cents