Is Drupal a viable solution for my website? Please review What is Drupal before posting.

First time Installing drupal

I've been lurking around the forums for some time now and I'm just making the jump to install Drupal but I have one question. For my initial install on a local pc should I install drupal 5 or 6?

installation

I am as gleefully anxious to begin working on a Drupal environment, with it's boundless potential, and next generational architecture, as a module on my laptop (probably the natural first step for any new Drupal user)

I am still anxious, though slightly less gleefully, because your installation guide does not include links to set up environments that would make the software run.

So when I downloaded Drupal... I downloaded a non-functional package, which, could be functional if I had already been a developer who knew how to add on additional frameworks...

RSS Feeds as News Stories?

Can Drupal include RSS feeds in with news stories section seamlessly? i.e.

News Story

RSS Feed

News Story

News Story

RSS Feed

Freelance module for drupal

I have read all descriptions about modules with keyword JOBS, but I founded nothing about FREELANCE apart the unofficial froogle I hope there are also other modules about this argument.

Drupal for Data Centric Portals

I have extensive experience working with ASP.NET based DotNetNuke CMS. But now, that I have a PHP assignment, I was looking for PHP based CMS. (There is no point reinventing the wheel. Similarly, there is no logic in recreating login/logout, basic User/Role management systems. CMSes provide a great jump-start that can be easily leveraged to build upon custom work).

Now, my work is Data centric, where I need to manage organizational data, their processes, and interaction with suppliers and consumers. I have downloaded and installed Drupal 6.10, and completely went through all its features that get installed by default in 6.10 (including Administration of the Portal). It looks good.

My major concern is the extensibility offered by the core platform. I love DotNetNuke for its provider architecture, and great extensibility in terms of custom modules. You prepare a module (and zip it up), provide its definition in an (XML-based) manifest file, and upload it into the Portal through the UI-based module installer, which also executes Sql scripts required by the module during the process.

One thing more that I would like to state is that I am making no comparisons. I dont want to initiate any debate on which is better. I am stating this just to show, how was I doing it in some platform, so that I can seek a comparative advice on how to do this in the Drupal platform.

is this a right fit?

I just found out about Drupal. And I am currently converting (or want to convert) an existing chamber of commerce website to a CMS that can do what they are currently using two systems for. They use Expression Engine for the basic content and they pay a company called Memberize for all their members and event organization..

I was looking into a CMS that would allow me to use the features of memberize (members, billing, events, member detailed data, calendar, basic info) with the basic CMS of EE all in one. Is Drupal good for that?

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