Virginia,
I had mentioned this Sharepoint cost calculator link when adding to
Francesco's blog post comparing Plone and Sharepoint too. Besides the
cost factor, it couldn't hurt you to re-read his (two-part?) blog post
regarding the Plone vs. Sharepoint comparison.
http://francescociriaci.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/plone-vs-moss-round-1/
I had helped a for-profit university evaluate commercial CMS tools a few
years ago and they chose RedDot. At the time, the price for their
.Net-based CMS plus their Java-based personalized portal delivery
engine, plus a 'Quick Start' where a small portion of the website was
themed/implemented was to run about $330K in US$.
Teamsite was in that evaluation as well, and their offering is broken up
into many modules, so it's harder to compare, but this client would have
paid a bit more for what they needed from IWOV than what the RedDot (now
OpenText) price was, even. Probably not a lot more, though.
Seems like the bigger players such as Autonomy/Interwoven/Teamsite,
OpenText/Vignette, etc. are in the 350-500K US$ range by the time you
buy licenses for not only your production servers, but also development
and/or staging.
Not to mention that the per-hour integrator rates I was seeing were in
the $175+/hr range US$, which is 30-40% more than most Plone shops will
charge.
Plus, you should build a comparison that looks at year 2, 3, etc. With
the commercial tools, the client will be paying 20%/year of license cost
just to keep up with patches/upgrades, no on-site services, just
emergency support, access to the online knowledge base, forums, etc.
If you do a 3-year Total Cost of Ownership comparison, I can't imagine
the other tools, even Sharepoint, coming close to Plone on a financial
basis, but others would disagree.
-Ken
Nate Aune wrote:
i don't know about Reddot or Teamsite, but the Sharepoint calculator
can be used to determine the total cost of ownership if you have to
buy all the user licenses and software licenses for the other
dependent Microsoft products.
http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/sharepoint-price-calculator/default.aspx
found via Cynapse blog:
http://www.cynapse.com/blog/cynin-low-cost-alternative-sharepoint
Nate
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Virginia Choy <virgi...@pretaweb.com
<mailto:virgi...@pretaweb.com>> wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have any documentation about total cost of ownership
or general cost comparisons between deploying Plone, Sharepoint,
Teamsite,, RedDot or any other proprietary enterprise solution?
Thanks Virginia
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