what you forget is that it takes a LOT of time and money to develop a cms from scratch. see: http://www.ohloh.net/p?q=cms eg: drupal core $ 2,442,947, 44 Person Years joomla: $ 12,744,398, 232 Person Years plone: $ 3,435,840, 62 Person Years I doubt that you can compete with this ;) On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Alvin Jason Ochieng <ajochola@gmail.com> wrote:
Jacob word !!
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:44 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Jacob, personally I have no interest in becoming a ccie except to further increase my knowledge on networks but I already see the word ROI surface on the cms subject. IMHO, lets stick with the Enterprenuers-First/Developers-Later ( now known as EFDL ) part as Vendees of Vendors and everyone will be happy and self justified. :-)
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Jacob Odada <jacob.odada@gmail.com> wrote:
@aki if you think being a cisco specialist is easy why dont you go and get 3 ccies we see how good you are?
This discusion has a problem in that we have people who have romanticised programming and people who actually use the right tools for the right job. I cant write a complete cms from scratch but what is the ROI (return on investment) if I did that for every website that I did? If need be I will write a cms but if not necessary I will use joomla or drupal. Why would someone with a small startup company want to pay me hundred of thousands to develop for him a custom cms? When developing you must understand the requirements of your customer and also how much money he is willing to pay.
As much as we may want to be romantic about the whole hacker mentality lets not forget bottom line we all need to eat and time is money. If someone pays you 50k for a site why would you develop a cms from scratch?
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