So why not hire the local FOSS expert who has experience with alfresco or other FOSS solution instead of immediately getting the proprietary solution? If there's enough resources to buy paid-for-software with support and a consultant, why not a FOSS solution with paid for support and a consultant? This is the business model that should be working here, right?
Of course, if the paid-for-software is much better than the FOSS one, then ask yourself if the cost worth the difference? On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Rommel Asibal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not alfresco? Or why not foss? > > I asked the same thing. Inasmuch as i want foss, sometimes people are put > in a position where they dont have the resources to do something, to test > things out, etc. Thtas why they go for paid software as you get support and > a consultant who you can talk to you about best practices and stuff like > that. Unless you got a top-notch sysad team and the resources sometimes you > gotta get a temp non-free solution until you can understand the system as it > should be. then when you're a bit more stable feel free! > > im probbaly going that route because i need to baseline my understanding of > my needs with my environment first; and i have an environment that is > better left to the experts (where less than 100% uptime is a grave > situation) plus i dont want to experience another one of those long nights > reading logs because there is no one else to do it -- dont get me worng > though, id go foss if i had the resources to do it. > > alfresco does look good. ill take a look at it. > -- eric pareja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) LPIC-2 | PGP/GPG Key 0xB82E42D9 Coordinator for Technology / Senior Linux Trainer National Telehealth Center, University of the Philippines Manila International Open Source Network - Southeast Asia "Ang mundo ay aklat, at iisang pahina lamang ang nababasa ng hindi naglalakbay." わかよたれぞ つねならむ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
