In reply to loganyott.

Thanks for chipping in to the discussion Logan! That's exactly where I stand. Low entry point and free for people who just start is terrific, but that keeps dragging the platform development process since established organizations try to stay away from WordPress unless they have had outstanding peers in their network for years.

Drupal and Laravel are the closest solutions that some organizations pick instead of WordPress, and there are plenty headed to Rails, ASP.NET, a Java framework, Django or something else. The amount of reliability and actual business awareness and appreciation is on an entirely different levels. I've spoken to successful business owners who often refer to WordPress as a playground, community by amateurs, a sandbox for kids just starting out. Developers at PHP conferences often kid about WordPress as well. There is a lot more going on, but reality is that we don't invest in educating our community enough on quality based on the industry standards, and we keep referring to WordPress as merely being a marketing tool, almost as if it's simply a landing page attached to a real platform.

I'm also very excited about the coming release and the suggestions for featured plugins, let's hope for the best.