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Will open source finally kill off the $1.2 million CMS money pit? (ZDNet)

[Posted October 3, 2002 by cook]

Builder.com investigates the world of open-source content management systems. "We asked two experts, EuroZope Foundation founder Paul Everitt and CMS guru Gregor Rothfuss, to explain this open source CMS movements goals and motivations. The open source advocates compare the status of current CMS optionswhich run the gamut from simple flat-file data storage to robust database solutionsto that of Linux as it flirted with corporate acceptance a few years ago."

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Posted Oct 4, 2002 21:17 UTC (Fri) by mwr (guest, #2785) [Link]

Though the article isn't that clear on it at first, that 1.2 million is normally the cost *per company*. And that's before the consulting and customization costs come in.