There seems to be quite a bit of confusion with regards to the value of the open source CMS market. For this reason, we’re asking why you use open source cms products?
What makes you choose them over commercial options?
I’ve noticed more and more that there are quite a few comments being said that are not factual with regards to the value of open source products. Some commercial vendors, for instance, tend to weigh in with the argument that open source products are not well supported and are less secure than theirs.
What is your take on this? How do you defend the open source CMS market? Or do you agree with these arguments?
We want to know. Comment on this article and share your stories for those who are unsure which way to go. Perhaps you can help them make the right choice, whichever that may be.
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Well, to be straight-forward: Most of the clients we work for do use "closed-source" CMS systems because they chose to.
The reasons are the following:
- Most sites of our customers do have heavy traffic on their pages and they do not rely on OSS as they do on partners which grant that kind of heavy load
- Stability and delivery of these pages matters
- There are closed-source-solutions that provide better advertising mechanisms than open-source flexibilities (which have to be tailored)
- Having a company with a dedicated product in the content management segment seems to grant trustiness
Just my 0,02 $, Georgi
Open source is often just better.
We use an open source CMS (Drupal) for our clients' site for a long list of reasons. Here are the three biggest ones:
1) There is an obvious savings in initial investment, which is passed on to the client.
2) Open source CMSs often have a large community of developers working on them. This results not only in an incredibly stable and well-tested final product, but also a long list of modular functionality which can be added to the base installation (again, saving time and money).
3) We believe an open source CMS like Drupal, because it is so well vetted by the community, is more secure than proprietary solutions.
Definitely some interesting reasoning. Thanks for sharing folks
Because opensource cms work perfectly and fill my needs, so i dont have reason using pay one..