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Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/03/07 22:09
Dawson wrote:
> I found your reply useful and it's of the same opinion as mine,
> however, I'm fighting against an agency who disagree, so, I need to
> find sources or a case study to prove why Joomla is not up to the job
> of an enterprise application.
Evangelists. Yuck. They decide the wrong way - from the goal to
supporting facts, instead of t'other way 'round.
It sounds like they've already decided on Joomla, and are now actually
looking for support for their predetermined goal.
For my two-cents worth, here's a buck.
It sounds like you might consider turning it around and asking the
"agency" that pronounced Joomla to be an "enterprise application" to
back up that claim. (Good luck with that.)
Bear in mind, that it's a framework for building applications, and not
an application unto itself. Whether you go with Joomla or build an
in-house solution, the enterprise will still need to keep a development
staff on hand - and they will be busy.
Bearing that in mind, consider further that that staff will all have to
be Joomla specialists - a very time consuming requirement since Joomla
is a very BUSY Open Source project and *constantly* changing, often in
very dramatic ways. The current version is called 1.5, but is really
just one of a dozen or so releases put out in a very short time - some
buggier than others.
Finally, it's worth re-emphasizing that even though Joomla markets their
product as a being usable in creating "complex corporate applications",
it is not an EA unto itself
What they're doing there is what I call "stealing legitimacy" from a
foundation component - strictly for marketing purposes. In fact, it is
PHP itself that makes EAP development so doable - and not Joomla.
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