Posted by Dawson on 09/03/07 20:29

On 3 Sep, 21:16, Sanders Kaufman <bu...@kaufman.net> wrote:
> Dawson wrote:
> > A client of ours with a large ecommerce shop is looking at moving to
> > Joomla...
>
> > The question is:
>
> > Is Joomla ready for large critical enterprise e-commerce
> > application(s), with white-labelling and all the features, stability
> > and security you would expect to come with it?
>
> > Can you point me to a case-study/url/source(s) for your opinion.
>
> Joomla's not very different from any other framework out there - it's
> secure, it's manageable, it's sleek. You likely won't find any case
> studies to contradict that claim.
>
> Like any other framework, Joomla is great for folks who don't have the
> resources to create their own framework - like small businesses and
> individuals.
>
> But if you're working within a large enterprise where you already have
> an IT system in place, you'll have to massage the heck out of a
> pre-built framework in order to get it to jibe with the way you do
> business. Beyond that, you'll find yourself working around features in
> a shrink-wrapped app when they don't jibe with the way you do business.
>
> In my opinion, a large ecommerce shop would be better off creating their
> own framework.
>
> My experience at NorTel provides anecdotal support for that. I worked
> on a team of about 60 ASP and *nix programmers who were supposed to
> customize a third-party framework (I forget the name of it) to be used
> by all the departments within NorTel.
>
> After 6 months, they finally decided that customizing the framework they
> bought into was just not possible. They fired all but three of us and
> those three built a framework for them within a couple of months - one
> that they could bend to conform to the business, rather than t'other way
> 'round.

Great thank you! Keep them comming people, really appreciate this.

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