Tom Duffey wrote: > > On May 15, 2007, at 8:08 PM, Andreas Schaefer wrote: > >> That is not going to work with me and so I am going to replace >> Magnolia with another open-source project or use plain old JSP pages >> because I cannot afford to buy a $10,000 license or to waste a huge >> amount of time upgrading it. Upgrading within 2.x was bad enough but >> that is too much. > > If there's one thing about this I agree with it's that the upgrade > path from 2.x to 3.x is not well documented. The tool is 58 euros and > available here: > > http://hirning.de/public/company/en/packager.html Even if that would work it is not going to do it for me. I spent some time helping other on the users list and on the wiki and I am not going to pay for a tool that helps me migrate. It is only working for 2.1.5 to 3.0 which means I would need to buy another tool when migrating from 3.x to 4.x? Secondly I am not quite sure if I have 2.1.5 (probably not).
Beside that it is question of fairness in an open-source community. The company behind magnolia did not open-source it for the goods of their heart but to make money as we all do. So they hoped that the community is helping them to create a stable and good application in return they made a basic application available for free. Now charging the community for a migration tool is wrong because it tries to make money with the idea behind that the users of the free edition are not wasting the investment into the application just because of 58 euros. Well, I will do because I do not know when this will happen again. >From time to time I was complaining about Sun and its open-source projects but for now I have to admit that Sun is one of the good guys in the open-source community and even with the fact that they want to make money with Java/J2EE I never spent a dime on them. I think I need to straighten the facts on my blog on Java.net. There are enough other open-source CMS available some with more features like integrated Wiki, Blog and others than Magnolia has. Too bad but I intended to give a presentation at the LA-JUG about Magnolia and how one could integrate a Blog or Wiki into it. -Andy ---------------------------------------------------------------- for list details see http://documentation.magnolia.info/docs/en/editor/stayupdated.html ----------------------------------------------------------------
