This sounds awful. One of the main considerations when picking any kind of framework is: What kind of community is there? If I run into a problem, how likely is

This sounds awful. One of the main considerations when picking any kind of framework is: What kind of community is there? If I run into a problem, how likely is it that someone else has solved it first? Will it still be popular in a few years? If you use say Rails or Django you can be pretty confident about these things. But a proprietary framework that's been created by a group of students? In PHP? http://i.imgur.com/AHqEn.jpg http://i.imgur.com/AHqEn.jpg ? Unless there's something big you're not telling us I wouldn't touch this with a bargepole. Edit: Ah, so not created by students. But everything else stands - the whole arrangement sounds like huge risk unless their framework does something amazing.