Drupalquickstart's Channel. Drupal as an Application Framework: Unofficially competing in the BostonPHP Framework Bakeoff. BostonPHP hosted a PHP Framework Bake-Off last night, a competition among four application frameworks: CakePHP, Symfony, Zend, and CodeIgniter.
A developer coding in each framework was given 30 minutes to build a simple job-posting app (wireframes publicized the day before) in front of a live audience. I asked the organizer if I could enter the competition representing Drupal. He replied that Drupal was a Content Management System, not a framework, so it should compete against Wordpress and Joomla, not the above four. My opinion on the matter was and remains as follows: Drupal (unofficially) competing in the BostonPHP Framework Bakeoff.