SA Democrats nuke $50k The South Australian Democrats has rejected a $50,000 content management system from an unnamed vendor for its new Web site in favour of the free PostNuke open source system.
Legislative Council member Ian Gilfillan said he expressed “shock and horror” when he was told of the $50,000 price tag.
“I immediately said we don’t go down that path,” Gilfillan told Computerworld. “The selection process then seemed to happen quickly and we are very happy with the quality of the package.”
The Democrats also considered other open source CMSs including MySource and Zope, but PostNuke best suited the primary task of getting news releases online.
Gilfillan conceded there was “a lot of integration work” with PostNuke but “it was achievable” and was done in-house
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