Re: Enterprise grade CMS+Ecomm

On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:30, Chris W. Parker wrote: > The answer doesn't even have to be specifically one way or the other. It > could be a mixture of the two. Perhaps I use something like Drupal > (which I have no experience with) for the CMS part and write my own > ecommerce application. Or perhaps I write my own basic CMS and purchase > an ecommerce application? Drupal has its own ecommerce suite that is reasonably robust all on its own. Drupal's main advantage: Whatever you're trying to do, odds are you can already do it with some combination of existing modules. Drupal's main disadvantage: There's a metric fuckton of modules and just as many ways to combine them. The "don't code, just configure" option is not always easy to figure out because it's just so flexible. (Disclaimer: I am a Drupal developer, albeit a minor one.) -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson