Are Some People In The Industry Out Of Touch With Reality?

[$tandaman]

It's possible this is made by the same bozos that were at internext a few years ago selling their shopping cart. They'd created a nice shopping cart that was used with the (then huge) online pharmaceutical industry. They were used to getting paid something like 20% commission on each sale - just for the shopping cart, mind you, no marketing or anything like that - and by the time we talked to them, they realized their payment model wasn't realistic, but hadn't figured out a reasonable one.

No it's not

I doubt this CMS even has any installed customers. It was "announced" at Internext 2007, their "testimonial" section has the same paragraph ("We offer the CMS on a leased basis for webmasters who want blah blah) repeated 6 times, the live demo doesn't work, and they have incorrect information about 2257 and it sounds like they have no idea of the 2257 requirements.

Wrong again, we do have installed clients, and software has been so successful that we didn't find it a priority to fix the site, which i agree was a mistake, that's why when our potential client pointed out this thread, i wanted to make sure site was fixed before i replied.

The other thing is... I think I'm pretty much done with pay-by-month or pay-by-year licensing programs for software, and also done with software that's Zend encoded. If I'm going to license software, I want a reasonably priced perpetual license with source code so we can maintain it if the company disappears or flakes.

If a company spends a decent amount of money to develop software, which firstly not everyone CAN develop on their own, they would want to protect their IP. You have the right however to choose the software vendor who provides the option you desire.

Further reading shows it's developed by AdultDesign.com, whom I'm not familar with. Supposedly they own some of their own paysites, so perhaps it's something they developed for their own in-house use and are now trying to sell it. I sent 'em an email and told 'em they were basically about $28,000 too high on the purchase price and if they decide to change their pricing structure to get in touch

Reading first, posting later usually helps. Thanks for your feedback, we'll take it into account

Our current CMS which was custom coded, cost us about $1700 and, for our needs, was *far* more flexible and capable than anything we found available at the time (2 years ago.)

The new revision we're writing the specs for now is another level of complexity and flexibility, including integration into our (custom coded) 2257 solution and will probably cost us another $1000-1500, but will completely streamline the way we run our business.

So yes, it's absolutely possible to get a high quality, custom coded CMS for under $2000.

Where are you going to find a developer who will work for less then 2000/month and who will develop a whole content management system with a video & image transcoding engine, clustering solution with geographical load balancing, multiple social features etc.. I would love know.