Durban defends R6.5m website

$ weather -i fadn
Current conditions at Durban International Airport (FADN)
Last updated Jul 06, 2009 - 03:00 AM EDT / 2009.07.06 0700 UTC
Temperature: 64 F (18 C)
Relative Humidity: 63%
Wind: Variable at 2 MPH (2 KT)
Sky conditions: clear
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They still on 12 :erm:
 
Even if most of the cash went to something like their own personal data server to run the damn thing, R6.5m is still an insane figure...
 
I am quite interested in what Adapt-it's PRO can come up with...

You can learn a lot about lying by looking at their statements...
 
7thSign said:
To me it looks like Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer
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Ok, thanks for that info.

I see you can download SharePoint designer for free now, and to me it seems to be a CMS of sorts. Still doesn't explain the cost of the site, considering that the design program used is free.

Maybe most of the cost is the support infrastructure required to support SharePoint Services?. I don't know SharePoint, so feel free to correct me.

"Live" feed for weather has updated I see.

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Bismuth said:
I see you can download SharePoint designer for free now, and to me it seems to be a CMS of sorts. Still doesn't explain the cost of the site, considering that the design program used is free.
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Sharepoint designer may be free, but Sharepoint itself certainly isn't.

I have worked on a number of similar (very similar :p ) sites for local govts, and a price of 200 - 250k (and an open source CMS) sounds reasonable to me.
 
this makes a good advertisement for AdaptIT. In other words "Don't hire them!"

:D

I love this line, says it all:
"My understanding is that it is really state-of-the-art stuff."

B.
 
This is a Sharepoint site. Sharepoint is actually meant for company intranets. To run Sharepoint as an extranet requires some pretty expensive software from microsoft.
Sharepoint developers also do not come cheap. I'd say the price is not all that exorbitant, and that using Sharepoint (albeit expensive) was the right move. Once the developers are done, staff will be able to update the content by themselves.
 
I think I heard somewhere that the adapter software that allows Sharepoint to deliver content as an extranet has a licence fee of R1.5 million
 
HBee said:
This is a Sharepoint site. Sharepoint is actually meant for company intranets. To run Sharepoint as an extranet requires some pretty expensive software from microsoft.
Sharepoint developers also do not come cheap. I'd say the price is not all that exorbitant, and that using Sharepoint (albeit expensive) was the right move. Once the developers are done, staff will be able to update the content by themselves.
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Because using Joomla/Drupal/Wordpress you can't update the content by yourself? :confused:
 
HBee said:
This is a Sharepoint site. Sharepoint is actually meant for company intranets. To run Sharepoint as an extranet requires some pretty expensive software from microsoft.
Sharepoint developers also do not come cheap. I'd say the price is not all that exorbitant, and that using Sharepoint (albeit expensive) was the right move. Once the developers are done, staff will be able to update the content by themselves.
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Until MS stop supporting their ludicrously expensive Sharepoint product.
But, then again, we can just keep on paying for the expensive Microsoft upgrades every year, there's an endless supply of cash here.
 
HBee said:
This is a Sharepoint site. Sharepoint is actually meant for company intranets. To run Sharepoint as an extranet requires some pretty expensive software from microsoft.
Sharepoint developers also do not come cheap. I'd say the price is not all that exorbitant, and that using Sharepoint (albeit expensive) was the right move. Once the developers are done, staff will be able to update the content by themselves.
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Theres about 100 different CMS`s you can get out there for free.... that dont require a badly performing MS product to run it. The devs are cheap as well. The products perform.
 
HBee said:
I think I heard somewhere that the adapter software that allows Sharepoint to deliver content as an extranet has a licence fee of R1.5 million
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Gosh, I'll have 3 of those, please. After all its only taxpayer's money. Phht.
 
They probably use it because it seamlessly integrates with all their MS office products.
 
HBee said:
They probably use it because it seamlessly integrates with all their MS office products.
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I've never used sharepoint myself, but I've never heard anyone who has had that pleasure use the word "seamless".

I seem to remember a govt MOU committing to the use of open source products wherever possible. Certainly, that was a factor in the govt websites which I tendered for (and then built).
 
chiskop said:
I've never used sharepoint myself, but I've never heard anyone who has had that pleasure use the word "seamless".

I seem to remember a govt MOU committing to the use of open source products wherever possible. Certainly, that was a factor in the govt websites which I tendered for (and then built).
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You are right. It integrates like a breaze, it's just leveraging the data in the documents that become a bastard. But hey, thats what we developers thrive on - challenges.
 
Also - for the govt sites I was involved in, they weren't interested in updating the site themselves. The wanted a service provider to develop the site, the initial content and then ongoing maintenance and content.

Maybe Dbn is different, but I'm still struggling to see where the R6.5 million went, even if they did spent half of that on an overpriced and unnecessary proprietary CMS (when perfectly capable open-source equivalents exist).
 
chiskop said:
How much for the version that allows you to run a public website?
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The way I understood it was the price (way back then when I had to deal with SP) the little button that says "Turn this intranet site into a public facing internet site" costs in the region or R150,000.00 or is that missing another zero?)
 
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