I have a client, that I am trying to determine a good solution for. I have done some Drupal work in the past, and also do quite a bit of custom PHP/MySQL work, so I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty.
What the customer wants is this-
They need a master site for the company, that contains all of the usual suspects- about us, contact, news, etc.. They want to be able to update the content on any of these pages, without worrying about screwing up the look and feel of the site (i.e.- edit just the textual content, be able to add a few inline images, etc..). They also want to be able to add press releases to a news page, with blurbs on their front page. Pretty simple stuff. I am confident that this will be simple to implement in Drupal (in fact, in one way or another, I have implemented all of these things in Drupal on other sites already).