Posted by webchick on November 14, 2011 at 6:29am
Drupal core developer sun has written up a nice brain-dump of initial impressions of WordPress compared to Drupal, focusing mainly on the feature set, the installation and getting started experience:

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Its Nice and better than any cms (Drupal)
If i start form the design and work understanding ability then drupal understand our problems more than any other cms. It has many modules with can be directly implemented and used even module development is easy. Its having many unique features. Really its unique and easy.
Dupal vs Wordpress
WordPress and Drupal admin pages have very similar look and feel. Especially, if you are using Drupal 7 as the Drupal admin template. But in Drupal, you can very easily build custom admin pages that are tailored to various admin roles. And clients really love them!
However, it took me a while to get there. Drupal is a very complex beast to learn, but once you get it, there is nothing like it.
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