Comments on: CIO magazine on what makes Alfresco different http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2007/10/11/775 Jeff Potts on ECM, portals, search, collaboration, and a bunch of personal stuff Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Esther Schindler http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2007/10/11/775/comment-page-1#comment-5978 Esther Schindler Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:03:08 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2007/10/11/775#comment-5978 Oh, there are certainly FOSS companies with a marketing budget. The first rank of Linux companies, such as RedHat, have long had such things. But I think it's unusual (not necessarily unique) for an open source company to be *founded* with marketing in mind. Certainly, I've had conversations with people in open source communities that start out with, "Why don't you have a Media Relations contact on your Web site?"... and they look at each other like... huh? we should have one? That's a far more common scenario. Esther Oh, there are certainly FOSS companies with a marketing budget. The first rank of Linux companies, such as RedHat, have long had such things. But I think it’s unusual (not necessarily unique) for an open source company to be *founded* with marketing in mind.

Certainly, I’ve had conversations with people in open source communities that start out with, “Why don’t you have a Media Relations contact on your Web site?”… and they look at each other like… huh? we should have one? That’s a far more common scenario.

Esther

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