Comments on: CMS product costs – hindrance to offshoring?

By: Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:43:38 +0000

Most vendors have a partner program which would enable use of licenses for development use. I know these vary from a few hunder dollars (e.g. IBM) up to tens of thousands of dollars (e.g. Documentum). But still, this would be something your company should be able to afford to invest in to service multiple clients? Of course, the exact terms of each program might work/not work for you.

By: Apoorv

Apoorv — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:52:53 +0000

Thanks Alan.
Yes I agree that pricing structure is very complex. For example, Interwoven used to charge a base server cost (per CPU) and then a cost per user and per power user!!

This is when i sometimes think how important standards can be. In the portal/J2EE world, things are slightly better. If a client uses IBM but follows J2EE and JSR 168 for example, we can atleast *theoritically* build all the functionality using an open source product like JBoss and then deploy it to IBM. No need of buying dev licenses!!

By: alan pelz-sharpe

alan pelz-sharpe — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:57:58 +0000

Very interesting post indeed – I will link to this on my blog.

I know that Oracle does not charge for development licences but FileNet for example does. The entire pricing structure of the main ECM players is horrendously complex and really needs looking at again.

I wondered if this makes a case for the likes of Nuxeo or Fuego (the two Open Source ECM options) when considering offshoring?