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If you are evaluating ECM solutions, particularly if you are interested in cost, you need to take a look at Alfresco’s TCO Whitepaper. In it, Alfresco uses licensing numbers they snagged from the United States government to compare the first year costs of their solution with EMC/Documentum, OpenText, and Sharepoint.

Alfresco does a good job of avoiding Marketing speak for the most part and simply laying out the facts.

The paper shows that for document management plus collaboration and integration with SharePoint, you’d have to pay EMC/Documentum $863,937.98 for a 1000 user configuration as opposed to $318,738 for SharePoint and $33,500 for Alfresco for similarly-sized systems with equivalent functionality. Those numbers exclude the supporting infrastructure software.

Since its foundation in 2000, Nuxeo has been proposing a robust and extensible open source ECM (Enterprise Content Management) platform to the most demanding organizations worldwide. Nuxeo Platform and all products from the Nuxeo Galaxy suite bring cost effective with no-license costs solutions to meet today's requirements of information management.

There are many reasons why our clients choose open source. Some clients are initially attracted to open source by the idea that they may be able to lower their total cost of ownership by shifting a portion of their license dollars to services and saving the rest. While that is a consideration, it’s not the whole story. In addition to lower cost, there are at least three other major factors that make assembling solutions from open source components an attractive option for our clients: Open source solutions are often a better fit. Open source solutions are often standards-based. Open source solutions are more transparent.