[byoung2]

Whether they bring development in-house or hire out contractors, it will be cheaper and easier to find WordPress or PHP devs than Python/Django ones. For even light modifications, they won't even have to touch code in WordPress...there is likely already a plugin for it. This exact debate took place at my company (before I got here), and WordPress lost. That is the reason I work here...it takes 3 fulltime developers to support the platform they chose (an obscure CMS and a frontend built with Zend). Of course it is more powerful than WordPress, but more expensive and temperamental at the same time.

[stepmr]

Right, but programming something in Django is much different then using some obscure php CMS. Django development is incredibly fast, and is more likely to attract good developers. We are also in a very large metropolitan area, with a substantial Python and Ruby communities. I was almost going to suggest the try Expression Engine or something. I just can't see relying on a variety of Wordpress plugins to make the site being a good idea. Especially if they're considering doing any custom work.

I mean Drupal and PressFlow would probably be an even better decision going the PHP route.