[mixmax]

That's a great reply!

The problem is that people like me, who are somewhat technically inclined but not fulltime programmers, fall in between two chairs. I need to do some reasonably advanced stuff, but I face a steep learning curve before I can do it, and I'm not sure it's worth it since it's not my main occupation.

[tinco]

Just a small note to your comment above, the issues you mentioned with Symphony, they are not just because you haven't "mastered" the CLI. It sounds like they are true bugs in whatever manual or documentation accompanies Symphony, and it would be a good idea to report your experience with setting it up on their issue tracking system.

I think many people often discard technologies for their implementation rather than their ideas.