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On May 5, 2009, at 3:09 AM, "Traci Blount" <tblo...@dpi.state.nc.us>
wrote:
All,
I just joined the list a few days ago and I've learned so much
already! I was wondering if there had been some similar work
comparing Plone to Oracle Portal in a similar manner? If so, could
someone point me to some resources?
I don't know of anything comparing Plone and Oracle Portal, but if you
evaluate the two systems, we'd love to hear your feedback!
Nate
Thanks!
Traci Blount
NC Department of Public Instruction
tblo...@dpi.state.nc.us
Nate Aune <na...@jazkarta.com> 05/04/09 8:32 PM >>>
Idea to create whitepaper from Plone and Sharepoint stories. See
http://www.openplans.org/projects/plone-marketing/plone-vs-sharepoint
A great idea Nate! Just to point out to those that mgiht not have
seen it
yet, my blog post from Internet World:
http://www.netsight.co.uk/blog/2009/5/1/plone-at-internet-world-expo
Yes, great post!
I had a couple of people come by the stand and look at the
brochure, and
when I approched them they said 'oh we use microsfot technology...'
or 'oh
we are going to use sharepoint'. I think the key is to really show
users
that Plone vs Sharepoint is like Apples vs Oranges. They really are
different beasts. I normally start by telling people that they can
co-exist
together and really serve slightly different functions. The
people I
showed demos to of Plone at the expo really were blown away by the
flexibility of Plone and what can be achieve with it.
Yes, it's not fair to compare the two systems because they are
fundamentally targeting different use cases, but one cannot deny that
Plone's feature set overlaps a lot with what Sharepoint provides, and
vice versa.
I think they biggest thing to get over, is as Karl says in his Blog
post,
that in corporate-land deploying Sharepoint comes under a central
IT budget.
Even if the costs are higher (which is another topic... people
think it is
'free') the end department that wants it is rarely the one that
pays for it.
Good point. I came across this SaaS cost savings calculator which
might be useful for getting a good overview of what traditional
"on-premise" software from the likes of Microsoft, Lotus, etc. costs
an organization depending on how many users they have.
http://www.phase2.com/savings/
Nate
p.s. cc'ing the evangelism list since others might want to join in on
this conversation.
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