[TYPO3] GPL Liscense and login / BE

[Mathias Schreiber [TYPO3]]

T.M.Snyder schrieb:
>> [...]
>> product or build our own (my preference).
> 
> Which in my opinion is absolutely nonsense.
> 
> Ask yourself just a few questions - and also your boss:
> 
>  - what is the benefit to have a own branded software instead of a software 
> supported by a worldwide community, extremly flexible and customizable?

The benefit is that you create your own market (which mighty be pretty 
dificult in the CMS market, since products like TYPO3 are rolling up 
almost everything that's in their way.

Plus that as soon, as their clients see "TYPO3" they might look for 
other agencies that can do TYPO3.

So I get Andrews point here.
I think TYPO3 might be an option though - because TYPO3 gets you LOTS of 
clients.

>  - why reeventing the wheel, if there are already wheels, and real good 
> wheels btw... ?

see above.

>  - why to reach the goal by going such a long way round, instead going 
> straight to the goal?

see above.

> You would need extremely much manpower and money to build something that 
> good as TYPO3,
> which has a development from over 7 years now and a worldwide community.
> This is priceless.

I mean, let them develop their own system - nothing wrong with that.
Just a small calculation for Andrews boss:
A = Potential CLient Loss to other agencies (100k)
B = Potential CLient Groth through TYPO3 (250k)
C = Development Time for own CMS (1500k)
D = Training Time for TYPO3 (100k)


if C-A is greater than (B-D), then use TYPO3.
If not (which I strongly doubt), code your own system.

Everything in this post is meant helpful, not arrogant.

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T3A AM
Rocking TYPO3 since 3.1b1