[OOTB-hive] CE looking bad?

Thu May 21 13:28:55 BST 2015

+1 What Jeff said.

Alfresco as a company is in the business of selling subscriptions, not
selling open source.

-huima

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Jeff Potts <jeffpotts01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't waste your energy trying to change how they market enterprise
> edition. There is absolutely no way they will do anything to lessen a
> subscription's appeal in their marketing. The best you can hope for is that
> it is fact-based and not mis-leading.
>
> I like the suggestion of building an OOTB page that shows a CE focus.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> On May 21, 2015, at 4:40 AM, Andreas Steffan <a.steffan at contentreich.de>
> wrote:
>
> The main problem with the comparison on the Alfresco Site is that it
> immediately makes the CE appear bad. No matter whether the items are
> relevant for the prospect or not. At the end of the day, I understand their
> current model is based on making money from EE licences and that hence,
> they try pushing towards EE. Still I think nobody wants immature software.
> Not even for free.
>
> In fact, it would fairly easy (and nasty) to make the comparison appear
> the opposite ;)
>
> Licence cost: CE (✔) EE (✖)
>
> PS: Just found there is another(?!) comparison at
> https://www.alfresco.com/products/community
>
> regards
> Andreas
>
> On 05/21/2015 10:40 AM, Aingaran Pillai wrote:
>
> Why don't you add a similar page on the OOTB website?
>
>  We send prospects who ask us to help them on Alfresco Community to the
> OOTB website. You should have a more of a Alfresco Honeycomb sales bit to
> the site.
>
>  IMHO,
> Ainga
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> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Cristina Martín Ruiz <
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>>  Fully agree with you, Andreas. Maybe can be an option to write a post
>> saying the good points that you can have using CE written by "OOTB". Any
>> ideas?
>>
>>
>>  2015-05-21 9:59 GMT+02:00 Andreas Steffan <a.steffan at contentreich.de>:
>>
>>>   Hallo everybody,
>>>
>>> I can't help myself, but the CE looks pretty bad at
>>> https://www.alfresco.com/products/community-vs-alfresco-one to me (red
>>> all over the place).
>>>
>>> Seriously: Imagine you are a somewhat clueless prospect on that page
>>> which reads " Ready to get started? Download the edition that is right for
>>> you.".
>>>
>>> Would you want to give the CE a try?
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Andreas
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