<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Nate Aune <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:natea@jazkarta.com">natea@jazkarta.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Gerry Kirk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerry.kirk@gmail.com" target="_blank">gerry.kirk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Indeed, thanks for taking the lead on this Constance. My favourite slide is the $50k one too. :)</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Yes, this is visually a very powerful way to show the differences between commercially licensed CMSes and customizable open source CMSes. I think it's important however to clarify what we mean by customization, as Matt Hamilton mentioned at the "So you want to be a Plone consultant" panel discussion that when customers see how much money goes towards customization, they assume that the CMS must not have very much out-of-the-box functionality, and therefore needs a lot of customization.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe "integration" is better than "customization"?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div>We should preface this slide by showing just how much you get with Plone out-of-the-box, and how with most commercial CMSes, you have to pay for all of those extra features as expensive add-ons. We could also mention that 99% of all Plone add-ons are also freely downloadable, so even if Plone doesn't have a particular feature built-in, there is probably a 3rd party add-on which satisfies one's requirement.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How about the fact that you can actually *do* this? Sharepoint mostly leaves you high and dry here. ;)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Before I do so, I'd like Mark Corum (cc'ed) to look over these slides and make sure that everything checks out okay. In particular, I'm concerned about using the company logos and screenshots. I can replace the slide of company logos with just the names of the companies, if that makes things easier.<br>
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<div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's probably a good way to avoid unnecessary trademark and legal issues, yes.</div></div><br>-- <br>Alexander Limi · <a href="http://limi.net">http://limi.net</a><br>
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