RE: What are you using for document management?

[quills -at- airmail -dot- net]

Well, for cost, I like Subersion. It's free. Your only cost will be 
for the server.

Scott

At 4:12 PM -0500 12/16/08, Dan Goldstein wrote:
>I don't have a specific Electronic Document Management System to
>recommend, but I do have a process for choosing one. Apologies to all
>who've heard the following story:
>
>At a previous company, I wrote a spec of minimum requirements for an
>EDMS. Then, we got Those-Who-Know, Those-Who-Care, and
>Those-Who-Sign-Checks to look over the spec and give their comments. Our
>spec was about three pages long, and it was pretty concise.
>
>Once we had an agreed spec, it was easy to review the candidate
>applications -- we looked at MS SharePoint, Xerox DocuShare, IBM/Lotus
>Domino.doc, Livelink, Documentum, etc. The vendors were happy to come
>and make their pitches.
>
>I sent the vendors our spec before their visits, and insisted that they
>compare their out-of-the-box capabilities with our spec during their
>presentations. Most of them (surprise!) required vendor customization
>that dramatically skewed the initial price comparison. The one major
>vendor whose product required no customization was actually
>disappointed! -- but we weren't. In the best of all possible worlds, the
>only cost is the initial purchase price.
>
>Caveat emptor, and keep your eyes on the spec.
>
>

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