Yes, and Facebook was built by a few nerds in a house in San Francisco.
And yet they've now spent hundreds of millions. Proving a concept is cheap, but taking into account all the threads that are involved in building out a large scale application is expensive.
My guess is that the $40m quoted for just the paywall is also inaccurate. They probably looked at this as an opportunity to update their platform to be more flexible to take advantage of further business needs for the next decade.
Whether it's a good investment is debatable. But as someone who works in the technology and media sector, I appreciate them taking the plunge.
No, git will not track database changes. Features however can handle much of the configuration (that is typically contained in the database) in code, which can then be managed with git.
If you want to create content on your dev or staging site and push it to production, check out the deploy module:
http://drupal.org/project/deploy
They never got back to me, but within a day I was running at full speed again. Good thing, as I was about to move to desktop email application. Based on the contact form, it would appear they DO know about the problem but at just not publicizing what the issues are.
And yet they've now spent hundreds of millions. Proving a concept is cheap, but taking into account all the threads that are involved in building out a large scale application is expensive.
My guess is that the $40m quoted for just the paywall is also inaccurate. They probably looked at this as an opportunity to update their platform to be more flexible to take advantage of further business needs for the next decade.
Whether it's a good investment is debatable. But as someone who works in the technology and media sector, I appreciate them taking the plunge.