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On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:58, you wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:48:21 -0000, Brough, Tom wrote: > > We are in the midst of our formal tendering process for a > > Web Content Management System. We have a short list of > > candidates including PHP-Nuke. Since there is no "formal" > > company behind the product we would like to hear from > > anybody who feels qualified to advocate PHP-Nuke. The > > advocate ideally would have some business / consultancy or > > heavy end user involvement with the product and be willing > > to advocate free of charge. Pay the authors to fly over and demonstrate. That would be the best advocacy available. Failing that, I'd expect what you really need is local support - say based within 4 hours. > Free of charge consulting. For free of charge software? > Not really fair. Always worth trying for. On the one hand it is standard business practice to ask and expect vendors to go anywhere and pitch their product - it leads to salesmen, to selling beofre writing and to inflation in the price of th eproduct, and also to the mindset that sees value in a program as an object, rather than value existing only in the services attached to the later use of that software. OTOH it is far from unknown to see firms paying for experimental/demonstration implementations as part of their research. If you pay someone to demonstrate and guide your evaluation then they have a duty to uyou to do that. If you make them take it as cost up front to be recouped from the eventual percentage of sales, then their duty is to their own company or self, and they will be tempted to skew th eevaluation by any means possible. Business practices may need to bend a bit to get the best results. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.