I'm not sure if anyone posted something about this. I'm sure someone would have seeing as it is from early October.
Info world did a comparison of CMS's from the Enterprise perspective.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/08/41TC-open-source-cms_1.html
Drupal was not a serious contender.
I do NOT think they got this entirely wrong. Drupal is certainly not a winner in this particular race.
I don't think that Drupal has ever claimed to be an Enterprise system. Nor do I think there is a strong developer push to bring it to the Enterprise sphere at this time (maybe that is the space Acquia will fill?).
But, Info world ranked Drupal LAST (behind Alfresco, Plone, DotNetNuke, and Joomla). This last place ranking is a result of insufficient marketing of the features and benefits of Drupal. In their grading system a single extra point in the 'features' category would have placed Drupal in second place. Drupal, if nothing else, is feature rich and Drupal seems to have a hard time telling that story to the Enterprise audience.
With that said, no amount of marketing would have led to a Drupal win in this contest, but it would have kept Drupal out of the basement.
andre
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I do NOT think they got this
While this might be true and I generally agree with what you wrote I cant really take Mr. Hecks words too serious.
He obviously didn't take too much time to look at the competitors. Of cause it is impossible to know everything about every system. I wouldn't want to judge which system is the "best". However I want to quote a few sentences without commenting:
Reading this makes me think even more that we need to prepare some sort of information kit for people with little knowledge and time to describe the strengths of drupal and how they can be used + plus a FAQ list so people find what they are looking for. (Rich text editors for example)
By the way - is there a node where all CMS test and comparison are listed?
Yes and no
What protramper mentions has to be considered because it definitely speaks for lack of time and will on the testers side.
But still: Drupal in the enterprise is a bit of a pain in the a*** at the moment. It has not been optimised for that task very well. It would be a "distribution" or install profile issue. And of course a large portion of usability is needed to complete the task.
The basis concerning modules and security is sure not worse than in any other system, rather superior. But for company use the "Drupal as a product" approach sure gets more important than the "Drupal as a framework". At least for an admission ticket. If companies have a web dev team, those will surely soon grow to love our favorite toy.
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