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Convincing Your Employer To Go With FOSS?

Posted by timothy on from the ask-him-his-favorite-browser dept.

mark72005 writes "My employer is currently looking at adopting a content management system for use by our technical support staff (primarily first-line end user support, but hopefully it will include deeper levels of support personnel eventually). The candidates are currently Plone (OSS) and Confluence (proprietary, closed-source). For those with experience in each, what arguments in favor of Plone could be made to managers more interested in pragmatism than idealism?"

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  1. FLOSS weekly 137 by keith_nt4 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I haven't used either system but the podcast FLOSS weekly recently did a whole episode about PLONE that may help you decide if it is right you.

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    "UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity." -Dennis Ritchie
  2. Confluence is Open Source by MeanMF · · Score: 5, Informative

    Atlassian makes the source for all of their products available to anybody who buys a license. It doesn't cost anything extra, and even the $10 starter licenses come with full source.