On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 14:43, lior - kabbalah wrote: > well after a month of studing an open source CMS > my comapny has got into a decision that we cant afford ourself the risk of using an >open sourced product of a young 3 years company.
A company that's managed to last *3 years* in the web world is nothing to be sneezed at, in my opinion. Much larger giants have fallen in far less time during the dotcom mania years. > so they sent me back to the web to seek for an out-of-the box product a low-priced >product (when we are talking about CMS) . > and i descoverd that not that i didn't found lots of products in our budget(5-8k US) >but all those midle-range products even didn't gave us the funtionality that open >source product gave. > > by the way i'm talking about EZ Publish. > this point is where i would like to hear your expirienced opinion. > 1. Is our worries has any basis? You don't list what your worries are, so I don't think anyone can say. > 2. Is there any chance i will find a out-of-box product with this budget that will >give me the same functions? You've just spent a month studying a product - you're familiar with it, and you will inherently be judging other products against what you've already learned. I'd suggest you contact the ez company about a commercial support contract, which they'd probably be happy to provide for your $5k budget. -- Michael Kimsal http://www.logicreate.com 734-480-9961 -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
