Not sure if this is the right place for this post, but here we go anyway: I work for a large systems integrator in their Portals division. We are using mainly Vignette and Tridion for CMS implementations, and some Documentum for document management implementations. Now I have been playing around for some days with Umbraco v4 and I really like what I have seen so far. I imagine that, for organizations which cannot pay the big license fees associated with the Tridion/Vignette installations, the free or even PRO version of Umbraco might be interesting.
Now my question is this: when we demo a CMS/ECM to a prospect, we normally use some "salesdemo" of the software, with which we are able to show all the capabilities of the software. Is something similar available for Umbraco, ie in a VMWare image or something?
Not to my knowledge (licencing of Windows Server for a start). Also, because Umbraco is so flexible you would need to customise (imho) the install for the individual pitch.
And luckily the web pi makes it a breeze to set up a local system.
Having said that, for a generic demo system you could use the web pi to install sql, iis and umbraco in a vmware image. thensnapshot it. then create a couple of builds, one based on the excellent CWS package, one with Runway.
Umbraco "sales" demo?
Hi,
Not sure if this is the right place for this post, but here we go anyway: I work for a large systems integrator in their Portals division. We are using mainly Vignette and Tridion for CMS implementations, and some Documentum for document management implementations. Now I have been playing around for some days with Umbraco v4 and I really like what I have seen so far. I imagine that, for organizations which cannot pay the big license fees associated with the Tridion/Vignette installations, the free or even PRO version of Umbraco might be interesting.
Now my question is this: when we demo a CMS/ECM to a prospect, we normally use some "salesdemo" of the software, with which we are able to show all the capabilities of the software. Is something similar available for Umbraco, ie in a VMWare image or something?
Thanks,
Jaco
Hi there,
Not to my knowledge (licencing of Windows Server for a start). Also, because Umbraco is so flexible you would need to customise (imho) the install for the individual pitch.
And luckily the web pi makes it a breeze to set up a local system.
Having said that, for a generic demo system you could use the web pi to install sql, iis and umbraco in a vmware image. thensnapshot it. then create a couple of builds, one based on the excellent CWS package, one with Runway.
hth
j
Jay, the CWS is a great start, I didn't know it existed until you mentioned it. Thanks a lot!
cool, my pleasure.. :-)
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