I'm a web developer that uses and loves Drupal. I have been an advocate for it at my place of work and to our clients. The release of Drupal brought about many great upgrades, but I can honestly say that implementing it on recent websites has been a struggle due to the lack of full release modules that support Drupal 7. Many of the modules that I regularly use for basic and advanced functionality are alpha, beta, rc or dev. I have experienced a degradation in some of the usual functionality that I create for clients because of this.
Our company is revamping its website originally done using Dreamweaver. I and our Drupal programmer will be presenting our proposed Drupal website to Management & IT. But our IT department have security concerns over the use of Drupal and currently opposed to using it. (Though one division in our company does have a Drupal website which resides in an external server.) Our proposed website will be the company's website and will be hosted internally.
Ref. the latest release note:
"Upgrading your existing Drupal 7 sites is strongly recommended."
( http://drupal.org/drupal-7.10 )
Shouldnt we use the term 'update' and not 'upgrade' for such releases?
Upgrade = between major versions (e.g. 6.x -> 7.x), and Update is within the same main branch, if I am not mistaken.