> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 20 October 2008 5:44 PM > To: Alexander Limi > Cc: Nate Aune; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Constance Kobylarz; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dylan Jay; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Chris Johnson; > Mark A Corum; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Roberto Allende; Luciano Ramalho; > Horak, Karl; Jordan Baker; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Plone marketing- WPD2008 Slide Deck > > > On 20 Oct 2008, at 01:03, Alexander Limi wrote: > > > 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"? > > I think integration is a bit more of a loaded word. I can imagine > many potential customers saying 'but I don't need any integration!'. > I really like the graph, but yes I think we need a way to better show > proportions and what you are getting. I think most of us here would > agree that with OSS the total cost would be lower, so I'm wondering if > we might want to not have 50K for both. The problem then is what *do* > we say for both... as we are just showing example indicative costs of > some theoretical project....
OSS is about value for money not being cheap or free. Which sounds better to you? I think OSS has suffered a lot by people pushing the line of customers saving money. It's built into our brains that there is always a trade-off if we go cheap. Also most organisations have budgets. They want to get the best deal for those budgets not try a have money left over. For this reason I think it's an excellent idea to have both at 50k. Leave it to the reader to figure out that if they better more for their $50k than proprietary then they have more flexibility if they want get rid of things to make it fit a smaller budget. > -Matt > > -- > Matt Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Netsight Internet Solutions, Ltd. Understand. Develop. Deliver > http://www.netsight.co.uk +44 (0)117 9090901 > Web Design | Zope/Plone Development & Consulting | Co-location | Hosting _______________________________________________ Evangelism mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
