Hello all,
Please find below the NZ Press Release for the forthcoming World Plone
Day event - everyone welcome!
Thanks,
Tim Knapp
World Plone Day – 7 Nov – Wgtn/Auck/Chch
Surviving the global economic crisis: Plone Open Source community fights
back with collaboration.
>From big business to Government agencies to non-profit organisations, no
one is escaping the financial crisis engulfing the world economy. Jobs
are being lost and projects put on hold as spending is reduced. IT
managers are being forced to look for innovative, cost-effective
solutions which deliver quality results within budget.
Open source technology is increasingly satisfying these needs using
collaboration between a large number of people to achieve efficiencies
of scale. More and more, business and Government are realising the
immense benefits of open source solutions which include:
• increased value for money (such as no licence fees)
• superior security
• better quality
• global support by a community of users and developers.
The economic crisis is a catalyst causing organisations to consider open
source as an alternative and move away from propriety software for
monetary reasons. But once they discover the some of the less known
advantages of open source, many of them will stay with it even when the
economy turns around.
The Dutch government set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies
to start using open-source software. Ministry spokesman Edwin van
Scherrenburg said, "the government estimates it would save $8.8 million
a year on city housing registers al one after switching to the Open
Document Format standard.
Plone is an enterprise content management system solution and one of
the largest open source projects on the planet. The Plone community is
organising World Plone Day on 7 November. This "follow the sun" event is
a global initiative involving 27 countries around the world where
Plone integrators, users and developers will hold seminars, presentation
and lectures about Plone and what it can do for you and your business.
In New Zealand Plone day is being held in Wellington, Auckland and
Christchurch. For more information please visit
http://plone.org/wpd_______________________________________________
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