Re: [Evangelism] cost comparison

2009-12-09 Thread Ken Wasetis [Contextual Corp.]
Norman, What type of shop do you run or work at, and where are you located? It'd be great to get more user/adopter/designer/developer user stories out there by way of interview/ustream/youtube. There's been a lot of FUD put out there by the PHP-ers of the world about how difficult Plone was

Re: [Evangelism] cost comparison

2009-12-09 Thread Norman Fournier
On 2009-12-08, at 11:33 PM, Alexander Limi wrote: > Also, TCO usually means "we couldn't find any other way to justify the cost > of our product, and we're taking a beating in the market right now, so we > made up* this totally arbitrary calculation that shows our competitor as > being harder t

Re: [Evangelism] cost comparison

2009-12-08 Thread Alexander Limi
Also, TCO usually means "we couldn't find any other way to justify the cost of our product, and we're taking a beating in the market right now, so we made up* this totally arbitrary calculation that shows our competitor as being harder to use / weird to set up / too communist." * aka. "paid a comp

Re: [Evangelism] cost comparison

2009-12-08 Thread Ken Wasetis [Contextual Corp.]
Virginia, I had mentioned this Sharepoint cost calculator link when adding to Francesco's blog post comparing Plone and Sharepoint too. Besides the cost factor, it couldn't hurt you to re-read his (two-part?) blog post regarding the Plone vs. Sharepoint comparison. http://francescociriaci.w

Re: [Evangelism] cost comparison

2009-12-08 Thread Nate Aune
i don't know about Reddot or Teamsite, but the Sharepoint calculator can be used to determine the total cost of ownership if you have to buy all the user licenses and software licenses for the other dependent Microsoft products. http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/sharepoint-price-calculator

[Evangelism] cost comparison

2009-12-08 Thread Virginia Choy
Hi, Does anyone have any documentation about total cost of ownership or general cost comparisons between deploying Plone, Sharepoint, Teamsite,, RedDot or any other proprietary enterprise solution? Thanks Virginia ~ Virginia Choy Business Development Manager