Daniel Ockeloen wrote:
As representative of such a "commercial partner" i couldn't agree with Daniel more. What we need, and have now built ourselves, is a CMS on top of MMBase. The flexibility of it, because of the way it works as a CMS toolkit, is its strength, but it's flaw at the same time. If we had a "profile"-cms on top of it, which we could, if needed, adapt to customer requests, this would make development on MMBase easier, faster and thus, more attractive. All open source projects that evolve in to good, bigger, projects need, to some extent, support of commercial partners, because it is almost impossible to create a large user-base without one. I can image that companies like Finalist and other commercial partners find this toolkit very interesting, because it allows them to "sell hours" to their customers for adapting it. That's why they are not very eager to open source all their solutions. On the other hand, we want to build websites and CMS'es as fast as possible, because this allows for us to deliver the same project faster than anyone else. In my humble opinion, keeping the CMS you build on top of MMBase to yourself, a policy almost all MMBase partners have so far (including my company), is a way of holding MMBase back. This will, in the end, by the laws of the free market, result in another CMS, that is faster to work with, can handle all the situations MMBase handles now and make all the MMBase partners obsolete. So, i agree with Daniel, and think that all commercial partners should (re-)evaluate their position on this subject. If some partners would be willing to join effort and come to a few good "profiles", MMBase and all it's users are on the right track to a solid future, if these "profiles" are not build, i think more and more people will turn away from MMBase, if not now, then in the next few years, because other CMS's are doing or going to do exactly this and both we as commercial partners and our clients will see that there is a , faster, better and thus cheaper way. Kind regards, Joost. _______________________________________________ --
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