In June, I said I was “holding up” on moving to the new Drupal 7.0 because: a) Drupal 6 update method was broken and b) website maintenance was becoming expensive and cumbersome for Drupal 6.
See blog post – http://www.comptoncoms.com/wordpress/2011/06/holding-at-drupal-6-20/

Truth is while I was waiting for 6 months – nothing happened. It seems that while I was making my stand, the rest of the Drupal Programming Community moved on.

Drupal 7 is now at version 7.10 and many of the modules that provide the features needed for news and newsroom sites are increasingly available. Maybe it is time for me to move on.

Much of what I have been programming lately are WordPress sites. WordPress has a wonderful system of maintenance updates and module updates.

Drupal 6 moved in 2010 to create dual upgrades so that security and bug fixes could be in their own versions. It means that website maintenance doubled and having a test server was vital to ensure upgrades did not break major functions of a website.

At the same time that maintenance became so difficult for Drupal 6 upgrades, a number of Drupal hosting services were launched that offered free sites – see for example www.drupalgardens.com .

Looking a the open-source content management systems, WordPress is now more than 50% of those sites. WordPress is an inexpensive solution that is fairly easy to configure on a commercial server and handles the maintenance and security update issues well.

Maybe it is time to stop holding at Drupal 6 and move on to Drupal 7.