I think this post is overly inflammatory for no good reason.
"Dries Buytaert wants his Drupal Community Management Service (CMS) to become mass market enterprise software.
Trouble is, unless your name is Microsoft, those goals are contradictory"
Well it would depend entirely upon YOUR definition of "mass market enterprise software" now, wouldn't it? I would submit that the Drupal platform is mass market already - the largest Open Source CMS, with excellent installation and ease-of-use. Enterprise? Do Companies use it? Well duh! It is THE choice for such. Here in NZ the government is specifying Drupal for it's websites, the local councils are also, and many companies are also. Because it scales. Wordpress and Joomla have their place in small-scale sites and blogs, where you haven't got loads of users, and a huge diversity of content types. Drupal does what they do, but provides the "Enterprise" needs too, which is why it is excelling.
Throwing Microsoft's name into the argument? Microsoft are a totally different beast that fails to innovate, but rather grows through dubious business practices which we are all familiar with. Nothing like Drupal ; so what has Microsoft got to do with your argument?
So the highlighting of the "lack of support" on one hand, and then pointing out that there are numerous professional drupal companies...contradictory, no? And why should they all be on the same page? Are all "Microsoft" shops on the same page? No; they compete against each other, by providing points of difference. So too with Drupal and every other brand that is able to be resold or serviced.
In summary, it would appear to me that there is a grudge borne here by Dana, that clouds reasoning.
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