Re: Open Source Content Management System

Greg,

Note that DNN also has an Enterprise support structure (~$2000/yr) where you
can depend on support (rather than the community).

Hope that helps.

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On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Greg <[email protected]> wrote:

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> We would like to use a CMS for our client facing website.
>
> We budgeted $$$ to purchase one.
>
> All of m y research and asking my community buds is pointing us to
> DotNetNuke: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/
>
> I have no experience with a CMS. Our goal is to make the content in our
> client facing site configurable so we do not have to ask our developers to
> do it for us and then wait for the next release. Nothing fancy, just the
> ability to store and load content dynamically.
>
> Anyone here have experience with DotNetNuke? Open Source is great, though
> we are willing to pay for a "retail" product if we need to.
>
> I see it's a MIT style license that requires attribution in our source
> code. I'm not a lawyer but it looks quite straightforward unlike the GPL
> licenses.
>
> Regarding security - we are concerned about contributors leaving backdoors
> in the code since it is open source. I don't see this as being an issue so
> long as we keep up with the latest patches.
>
> Should we be concerned with licensing and back doordoors in?
>
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