Here are the slides I submitted to Munich DrupalCon 2012 on the subject of Drupal as an enterprise web application framework. The idea to show developers and technical decision makers that Drupal isn't just a CMS but could also be considered an application framework for application development.With Drupal 8 using Symfony components it'll be even more so.

http://munich2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/drupal-7-enterprise-web-application-framework

Edit: December 2013
Having done a fair bit of Symfony 2 work the last months, I'd say for PHP, Symfony 2 is my framework of choice for custom applications. I do still think Drupal has its place though in cases where you want to do minimal coding, and I still like it as a base for backend applications; intranet tools and so on. Drupal 8 with its symfony components is looking interesting.

Edit: March 2014
A good article on Symfony 2 usage in Drupal 8. Interesting times ahead.

Related Pages

http://drupal.org/node/547518http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywUHDT5Xos0http://www.ent.iastate.edu/it/Intro_to_Drupal_7_Architecture.pdfhttp://symfony.com/componentshttp://symfony.com/blog/symfony2-meets-drupal-8

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