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  • From: Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Wiki?
  • Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:36:31 -0500


On Mar 5, 2007, at 10:40 AM, zman wrote:

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
We tried an open source wiki, and now swear by Confluence, from Atlassian:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/

$1200 for 25 users... $8k for unlimited

A little steep price wise...


For an individual maybe, but not for a company, where the total cost of ownership is more important than the license cost. We use Atlassian's bug tracking software as well, and their software not only makes our entire company more productive, but in the years we've used it have never encountered a single bug. We've filed some requests for new features, but never a bug.

For software that employees use everyday I'm much more interested in efficiency and capability than price. For example, my company recently spent 6 months trying to switch to using an open source CRM system. After dedicating an engineer half time for six months posting on the forums, fixing bugs, etc, we had to pull the plug and go with a commercial system that took two days to implement. Cost of the open source package: $25,000 in salary. Cost of the commercial system: $2,000.

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