Comments for Six Apart, my kinda company

Comment from Arvind on 2004-06-16

2004-06-16T19:06:18Z

hehe amusement for me. When I first read the entry on Six Log my mind went to think of all those switcher that switched and whether now they would switch back :P]]>

Comment from sn on 2004-06-16

2004-06-16T19:21:14Z

I think that the new princing plans are great for such a fine piece of software (hope the new features are on their way).

Unfortunately I think they missed the point that matters me the most, educational organizations. I've been managing an university's online journal using MT. Several (100+) students participate on this journal.

They have proposed a fee of 1000$ (100 users) which I think is really inadequate. We are non-profit, educational, contribute regularly to MT translations and open-source - our students learn from our installation.

Universities have a record of building their own systems or contributing to existing ones and give the work back to the community, so I don't think this was the best move.

Just my 0,2€. :/

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Comment from Adam Kalsey on 2004-06-16

2004-06-17T06:01:59Z

sn:

I'm not sure what pricing structure you're reading. A single class or multiple classes under one teacher can use MT for $40 with unlimited authors and blogs.

If you want to use MT across your whole school, the pricing is rather inexpensive. The packages start at $299 for 300 users and go up to $1000 for unlimited students.

http://www.movabletype.org/get_movable_type_education.shtml

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Comment from sn on 2004-06-17

2004-06-17T10:41:39Z

I have to get in touch again with MT, since this quote was sent personally to me two weeks ago, when the first version of the princing struture was defined.]]>

Comment from Mark J on 2004-06-17

2004-06-18T00:17:17Z

I think a lot of people, like myself, were itching to switch, and the license fiasco was merely a catalyst. I like Movable Type... quite a lot... and I will continue to use it for various purposes. For my main blog, however, I had simply outgrown it. I don't have the Perl knowledge to hack it to my liking; most of what I was doing was taking MT's static output and making it into PHP input, and then performing logic. A PHP-based system just gives me more flexibility.

Regardless, kudos to Six Apart for fixing their license. If money was my only reason for looking at alternatives, I would have waited until now, and would have been very pleased.

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Comment from lee on 2004-06-29

2004-06-29T08:53:39Z

Am moving as needed to pMachine for free stuff, pMachinePro for multi-blogs ($45), and ExpressionEngine ($150-200) for complex sites. PHP-based, fast, no rebuilding, modular, easy to set up and customize, lots of goodies built in. Not perfect, but much better than MT. Don't have the time to wait for MT to grow up -- why bother when there are many competitors out there. We paid our $20 to $150 per blog installed (and we installed many of them), so it's not like we didn't spend money on MT. We were looking before the pricing fiasco because support had gotten so sparse and, well, snotty, which would've been somewhat acceptable if the documentation were decent. Mainly we felt betrayed since we'd been waiting and waiting for MT Pro -- which was, as far as we can tell, abandoned. I hope Six Apart does well, and will revisit it if MT Pro is ever released. But I'm not holding my breath. ]]>

Comment from Scott Gowell on 2004-08-19

2004-08-19T22:49:51Z

Congratulations on being hired by 6A!!!!]]>

Comment from ania on 2004-10-14

2004-10-14T20:51:20Z

super nice:) ...If money was my only reason for looking at alternatives, I would have waited until now, and would have been very pleased.
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Comment from Brad Carps on 2005-03-17

2005-03-17T23:18:49Z

I always liked the MT software, but I hopped on the OSS bandwagon with WordPress. I remember using some of your plugins, fondly, and I'm happy that you're happy. Good luck!]]>

Comment from marysia on 2007-04-07

2007-04-07T23:20:17Z

"So for those of you that have stuck around through all of this, perhaps watching with amusement or even bemusement, aren’t you glad you did?"
I agree with you.]]>

A New Couple

2005-03-10T08:05:16Z

My (somewhat less gloomy) thoughts on the Six Apart-LiveJournal union.