Comments on: How Overpriced Are Your Web Services?

By: conniemg

conniemg — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:41:41 +0000

Hi,

This is Connie from Yugma. On behalf of Yugma with our One Year Anniversary, I would like to thank you for mentioning us on your site and helping us to spread the word about our product. The blogging community had had an integral part in making Yugma one of the fastest growing real-time web collaborations services in 2007 with over 100,000 users to date.

To express our thanks, we’re donating/sponsoring Yearly Premium Yugma accounts (valued at $99.50) to bloggers who simply ask. To learn more about this program and how to get your sponsored Yugma account, check out the details on the Yugma blog – linked below.
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Please be sure to check this out soon! The window to request your account through the Yugma Blogger Program will be through the end of January, 2008.

With Greatest Appreciation,

Connie and the rest of the Yugma Team

PS: Be sure to stay tuned! Yugma is set to release new features and improved performance in the next few weeks and months. To keep informed of all the happenings, check out (link) under the news and blog.

By: Bruce Judson

Bruce Judson — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:56:04 +0000

I agree 100% with the above statement. Search Free Apps.com has over 800 distinct free services and almost none of them are open-source solutions. My concern with open-source is slightly different than discussed above: I want all of my applications to be really easy to use. In fact, a central criteria for including a service in Search Free Apps is that users can be up and running in under 10 minutes. In general, I find that open source solutions don’t meet this criteria. They require too much technical expertise.

Bruce Judson
Founder, Search Free Apps
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By: nickbuick

nickbuick — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:17:16 +0000

Be careful doing this. A lot of web developers are now pushing open source CMS’, shopping carts, CRMs, etc as cheaper alternatives to tailored solutions. Often the developer/vendor doesn’t have the expertise to deliver a custom solution so they just mash together open source solutions to deliver a rudimentary and cumbersome solution. The problem arises when, 6 months after the client’s migrated to the new open source app which has been heavily ‘cludged’, a security flaw is identified. Its free / open source code - so every hacker in the world can access your source code to identify injection points, etc and because it’s open source… vulnerabilities are also published with patches when identified…. But because the solution is a cludge of various free products patching is often difficult and neglected. I’ve seen several house-hold name brand companies have their websites reduced to bill-boards for Al Quada overnight due to this issue in recent times. All because someone in the IT department wanted to save a few bucks.

I run linux, apache, mysql, php, etc - so I’m obviously an advocate for free solutions when they have a proven track record. And there are some excellent packages around - However I’d have to say taking this road doesn’t come without potential pit-falls – do your homework.

By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:43:50 +0000

I really do like these posts that you do when you tell people about free apps and their advantages. A great help! (link)

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:06:27 +0000

Great Post, checkin out yugma and search free apps now. Thanks

By: alex4comment

alex4comment — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:24:25 +0000

On the other hand, the time you spend researching and comparing alternatives is valuable, and there is a risk in trying something different. In this example, planning and scheduling a meeting (your time plus the time of everyone else) and having it go badly.

You have to factor those costs against the cost savings and see if you come out ahead or behind. I’d say it could go either way.

By: Mia

Mia — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:19:55 +0000

we switched a while back from one of the higher priced solutions to the much more attractively priced Yugma. it’s a no brainer - especially for us who have budgets! we are so happy with yugma and are always happy when they release new things for us to use. we’ve been using their yugma-skype version for a few months now and have just started to use the browserbased viewer they just put out. they’re doing good things! we’re very satisfied customers!!

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