Infoworld: Lies your vendor tells you

by Alex Limi — last modified May 22, 2007 07:33 AM
In good projects, source code access is of critical importance to helping SIs grok and then implement the code. And it's highly useful for enterprises to be able to make an initial investment in a technology that costs them less than 10 full-time employees.

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Matt: What Tony doesn't mention, but which has become clear to me as I sell against bloated systems like Vignette, Documentum, etc. is that there is a MASSIVE difference in both acquisition costs and implementation costs in proprietary systems and open source systems… like Plone.

It really is a factor of 10X in many cases. I'm daily meeting enterprises that paid $500K+ for a Vignette/Documentum/FileNet/etc. system, and can't get it to work at all, despite hordes of consultants on the case.

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Mar 27, 2006

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