Plone NGO Mailing List Christian Aid go for Microsoft over Open Source

michael nt milne michael.milne at gmail.com
Sat Nov 11 11:18:46 UTC 2006


I think most people realise that open source isn't free and includes set-up
and support costs. Still it still works out much cheaper that going with
licenses. There's a big difference between using open source as a desktop in
an organisation and using it as a web application etc. That point isn't
highlighted in the article. Most NGOs that I know are using Windows as their
desktop. Also the comment about having their systems open so that anybody
can see what they're doing. That's wrong. Yes the difference between code
and data etc.

Can't imagine they're getting a good CMS through Microsoft compared to the
value and innovation that the open source community could provide.


On 11/11/06, Alexander Limi <limi at plone.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:29:21 -0800, Zahid Malik
> <z.malik at fry-it.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry if this is slightly off-topic but I though it was an interesting
> > piece (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6124582.stm) on Christian
> > Aid's arguments for using Microsoft over Open Source. Some of these
> > are relevant to Plone's entry into NGO's. You can see what slashdot
> > thought of it all
> > (http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/11/09/152257.shtml).
>
> This is a pretty uninformed article, and as mentioned on Slashdot, the
> people don't seem to understand the difference between code and data.
>
> I have actually spoken to these people a while back about using open
> source (if I'm not mixing up people here) — and Plone — and I won't say
> more than that I'm not surprised that they ended up going with Microsoft.
>
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