Comments on: Full OSS solution vs OSS/commercial solution mix

By: GeoMusings Bringing It All Together… «

GeoMusings Bringing It All Together… « — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:55:03 +0000

[...] few months back, Paolo posted about mixing commercial and open-source tools. I think this will eventually be the prevalent means [...]

By: Overmind

Overmind — Sun, 06 May 2007 11:14:03 +0000

what do you think about dotnetnuke in .net world?
Have you tried http://www.mojoportal.com/ or http://www.rainbowportal.net/ ?

By: Momisch

Momisch — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:50:47 +0000

Ruby on Rails

By: Paolo Corti

Paolo Corti — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:17:45 +0000

Hi Niels

first of all congratulations for the great piece of software you created.
Having said that, we would be more confident to go for a full OS CMS solution for .NET, but there is not choice in the .NET world.
Umbraco is great, but our major concern about it is that at the moment it has - for obvious reasons - only a little bit of CMS features we would need (versioning, groupware, workflow managment, events….).
I will let you know what will be our choice,
cheers, Paolo

By: Hartvig

Hartvig — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:05:58 +0000

Hi Paolo. I understand your concern regarding umbraco going to CPL but don’t be affraid. It’s correct that the reason is to open for commercial modules. An oppotunity for ISVs to build great, well-documented and stable add-ons as a supplement (not a replacement) for the range of often un-documented, half-done open add-ons that’s floading (there’s great and done add-on’s as well, but it’s quite often that open source add-ons really needs a lot of polishing).

This is something that should make you happy. It doesn’t make umbraco less open source (CPL is OSI-approved) and there’ll still be loads of GPL and free add-ons distributed I’m sure. But with commercial add-ons you can start to justify making demands.

The change to CPL will give umbraco an even better eco-system. It has been discussed in our forum, but all agree that there’ll always be open add-ons too. And that a commercial add-on only stand a chance if it’s well-documented, hard to make and very polished. For those simple add-ons there’ll always be an open alternative. And even making a commercial add-on, doesn’t have to exclude the option of getting the source code anyway.

Cheers,
Niels (founder, umbraco)