Drupal 7.x

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Hi All,

This is the first time I'm checking out Drupal. I have a small team of Joomla Developers and a few core PHP programmers. Joomla sites tend to be rather slow and heavy. After reading a few posts about Drupal, I wonder if we should move towards Drupal development. Need your views on a new website we need to build and if Drupal is the right choice for it.

1. Banner management system (Clicks, Impressions and duration based) - Joomla has an extension for this
2. Multilingual support (Chinese, Arabic etc) - Joomla has Joomfish
3. Newsletter Management System - Have a few good extensions in Joomla for this.
4. Roles based content Management - Joomla has limited flexibility here.
5. Need to integrate with Vtiger - Joomla does have a bridge for this but we might need to write custom code anyway. Does Drupal have any extension/add-on to do this?
6. Part of the System is done in Zend Framework, so we need a SSO (Single Sign-on) facility from Drupal to Zend Framework portion. Is it possible?
7. Is it easier/harder to write your custom code in Drupal (Compared to Joomla)
8. Design is of great importance. Is it easy to fit custom design templates/themes in Drupal. I don't see too many good-looking themes in Drupal. What are the challenges?
9. AJAX support - Joomla gives native mootools suuport. Is it easy to use Jquery/YUI with Drupal?

I was just wondering if the following site structure would be possible in Drupal:

The structure would be similar in complexity to a light version of Gamespot where the majority of the content such as Article Type (i.e. News, Reviews, Screenshots) are organized/categorized under Consoles (i.e. Xbox, PS3, Wii) and also associated with Games (i.e. Halo). Also, some Article Types such as news can be associated with zero or many Consoles and Games.

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When running a fresh install on a working apache server the install fails with the message "Your web server does not appear to support any common database types". The database is on a separate server, it is NOT on the web server. Is there any way to get a D7 install working in this configuration?

I'm currently evaluating all of my options for a new CMS for a major project. I made a skeleton of a site in Drupal and although there were a few things I didn't like at first, it grew on me once I got past the initial learning curve. However, one of the things that bothered me the most - which was that vital modules aren't in the core (CCK, etc) - seems to have been solved in the next release. I haven't installed 7 yet as I don't have time to evaluate options that aren't official releases.