On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Nate Aune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Gerry Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Indeed, thanks for taking the lead on this Constance. My favourite slide >> is the $50k one too. :) >> > > Yes, this is visually a very powerful way to show the differences between > commercially licensed CMSes and customizable open source CMSes. I think it's > important however to clarify what we mean by customization, as Matt Hamilton > mentioned at the "So you want to be a Plone consultant" panel discussion > that when customers see how much money goes towards customization, they > assume that the CMS must not have very much out-of-the-box functionality, > and therefore needs a lot of customization. > Maybe "integration" is better than "customization"? > We should preface this slide by showing just how much you get with Plone > out-of-the-box, and how with most commercial CMSes, you have to pay for all > of those extra features as expensive add-ons. We could also mention that 99% > of all Plone add-ons are also freely downloadable, so even if Plone doesn't > have a particular feature built-in, there is probably a 3rd party add-on > which satisfies one's requirement. > How about the fact that you can actually *do* this? Sharepoint mostly leaves you high and dry here. ;) > Before I do so, I'd like Mark Corum (cc'ed) to look over these slides and > make sure that everything checks out okay. In particular, I'm concerned > about using the company logos and screenshots. I can replace the slide of > company logos with just the names of the companies, if that makes things > easier. > That's probably a good way to avoid unnecessary trademark and legal issues, yes. -- Alexander Limi ยท http://limi.net
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