Re: Will your chosen CMS vendor go bust?

On 06.10.2005, at 06:29, David Warwick wrote:

> Escrow is a bad choice in my opinion.
>
> Escrow is more relevant for custom development. Having product code in
> escrow is of little use to anyone - it is simply a gesture of risk
> management that provides very little practical benefit. If a product 
> dies,
> the customer is best placed to get their content out and go through 
> the pain
> of migrating to a growing and better performing platform. It is 
> unlikely a
> customer can take the code and continue to meet their own needs. It is 
> also
> unlikely that they will be able to find suitable development resources 
> for
> ...

Well put. Thats all there is to say to the topic. It should go to some 
(open source) FAQ

Regards
Boris Kraft
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