Re: Will your chosen CMS vendor go bust?

At 05:52 PM 6/10/2005, Boris Kraft wrote:


>On 06.10.2005, at 06:29, David Warwick wrote:
>
>>Escrow is a bad choice in my opinion.
>>
>>...
>
>Well put. Thats all there is to say to the topic. It should go to 
>some (open source) FAQ

Of course, open source is potentially no better a solution.
As David said, just having the code is not much use, unless
an organisation is willing to invest _considerable_ amounts
of time in learning how the CMS operates.

Even in the open source community there is the danger that
a solution will lose momentum, with the community moving
onto other projects. (Sourceforge has long recognised this
phenomena and has attempted to quantify it on the site.)

In practice, I've found a very useful concept to be
"self-sufficiency" in terms of day-to-day administration,
and separately, customisation and development.

For more on this:
http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/cmb_selfsufficiency/index.html

Cheers,
James

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James Robertson, Managing Director
Step Two Designs

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