Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Open Source and business thoughts

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Posted by Rafael Calvo on
Very interesting!

Do you have a proactive or a reactive approach?. I mean, could it be that your statistics are based on a sample that is already skewed? or is it that my sample is skewed by  companies that do not know of either (ACS/Zope)?

My approach has been proactive in the sense that I go to the paper and look for tenders or go to managers I know and show them what you can do with OpenACS (a screencam or live demo or both). It has to be proactiove since I am now in a University but doing consulting...

In one case the other options were Vignette and Interwoven.
Another I expect to have Webct and Blackboard.
In a couple were internal developments.

My biggest "sale" was an internal project against another internal system with less features but with a nice "wygiwys" inteface (we discussed this in another thread "wordprocessing in forms"). I implemented the intranet module there (using ACS/Oracle).