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9/4/2008 10:34 AM
 
Erik Hinds


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Alex Shirley wrote

 ech01 wrote

aApparently the pitch didn't go as well as I thought. They ended up going with SharePoint for various reasons.

 

Ha, don't get too down...! My previous company decided to go with a Perl based product written by a couple of guys in a backroom rather than develop and expand their existing DNN infrastructure. The shiney sales people convinced them that DNN was "for nerds and geeks" as it came from the IT dept. Funnily enough the marketing dept who commissioned it (plus decided to project manage it), and in their infinite wisdom still hasn't delivered... anything at all.. I wonder why? (answers on a postcard please).

 

Perl? I'd rather loose out to notepad based cms. I'm not too down on it. Win some, lose some. I'm pitching another, more ambitous DNN project next week. Perception is really the biggest factor. Whether it's the name (i get negative feedback on the word Nuke!) or something that is out of date on this site, or perhaps preconcieved notions about Microsoft, some people are turned off.

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9/4/2008 3:18 PM
 
Tony Valenti


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ech01 wrote

aApparently the pitch didn't go as well as I thought. They ended up going with SharePoint for various reasons.

 

I know exactly what you mean.  When we do sales pitches against Sharepoint, we tack a couple extra zero's onto the price just to make it look legitimate.  From an executive's perspective, if SharePoint costs $30k and you're offering a $4k DotNetNuke solution, *something* has to be wrong (even though we all know that DotNetNuke is that cheap).  I've seen many people loose DotNetNuke VS Sharepoint project bids simply because the DotNetNuke bid was too cheap.

 

 

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