Hi Newbie here
My first post:D
I have a question that I appreciate some input. I want to create a site to do some estimating of jobs and scheduling of jobs and hopfully do it over the cloud on my ipad. Would I be better off trying to do it with drupal or should I do it new within a framework like cakephp?
Thanks
Welcome, sorry it took so long for someone to respond 
The answer to your question is unknown by anyone here,as it would depend on which of the two you have most experience in programming in 
As you are looking to develop something custom , you can go for some frameworks. If you are looking for functionalities in drupal then go for it .
Thanks for the reply guys. I have little experience in PHP, but want to make a start. I think the things I want to do will require some customising and added functionality. Not sure if drupal can be customised easily or have the addons available that does what I want.
Is it possible to do it in drupal?
If my customizing changes alot of the structure/display of drupal, would I be better of going framework?