When Open Source Makes Sense

Seth Gottlieb is a consultant you want to get to know. Why? Because he likes to save his clients money. One way he does this is by being open to Open Source. But make no mistake, he saves his clients money by also steering them away from open source software solutions if they aren’t the best products for their needs.

He’s highly involved in the open source community and has seen hundreds of open source content management systems. But open doesn’t just mean free. Open source is really a licensing model with a number of criteria that determine whether software complies to the open source standard. Seth can tell you what these are and what they mean to your organization when choosing a CMS.

That’s why his presentation topic for Web Content 2007 is called When Open Source Makes Sense. Seth has spent “a lot of time” working with open source software at several leading consultancies including Viant, Molecular, and The Advisory Board Company. He most recently founded and facilitated the content management practice at Optaros, and is the founder and principal of Content Here, his own consulting company, where he works with companies of all sizes, helping them improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their content management and publishing processes.

Seth has a regularly occurring podcast, The Malcontents that discusses content management trends and issues. He also speaks and writes extensively on content management issues, including two popular articles, Selecting a CMS, followed by a valuable how-to, How to Select a CMS.

See Seth Gottlieb’s presentation on Day One of Web Content 2007, part of the Content Development and Management track.