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Bjarte Berntsen
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Friday 03 March 2006 12:01:07 am
Hello! What I am wondering about is: I am quitting my job at the end of July. At that time, there's is no competent people with computer skills left. Do you think it would be possible to still use EZ Publish without having any skills? I am thinking about updating and the technical stuff that is. Not the use of EZ. BB
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Sandro Groganz
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Friday 03 March 2006 12:30:18 am
Is there anything in the world which you can safely use without skills? If you were the only one able to drive a truck in your company, and you wonder whether someone without those skills could safely drive the company trucks - wouldn't you worry that in the beginning there might be some fatal crashes? In that case, I recommend your company asks for paid services by a third-party - or they take the risk of trial and error. It depends on how mission-critical the eZ publish installation is.
Sandro Groganz
Chief Knowledge Officer
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Bjarte Berntsen
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Friday 03 March 2006 1:37:30 am
Hi! The reason I ask, is that I am trying out EZ publish compared to other. One other alternative I have, is to pay for it by third party. In your opinion: Is it possible to set up an installation of EZ Publish and make it work? without any flaws, except the occasional reboot once in a while? The person that would take over after me, would be capable of setting up user permission and that sort of thing, but not anything more advanced than that. bb
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Mark Marsiglio
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Friday 03 March 2006 1:47:22 am
I have had 5-6 clients with no support contract that have worked in their ez 3.2 and 3.4 installations for years without ever contacting me with problems. Their content is still up to date, so I would guess that would suggest it can be used without too much in the way of webmaster-type technical skills.
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Bjarte Berntsen
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Friday 03 March 2006 2:31:48 am
Is it Linux or Windows you have based EZ on? Or anything else, that is.
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Gabriel Ambuehl
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Friday 03 March 2006 3:14:47 am
They will likely be able to maintain the content just fine. Updating I doubt: That's sometimes challenging even for seasoned admins of ezpublish ;). And I'd say the same for most CMS out there. Changing content should be simple, changing the system itself is often dangerous. If the site is mission critical, they should definitely get a support contract for it.
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Mark Marsiglio
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Friday 03 March 2006 5:00:25 am
I agree- my clients who are on their own do nothing to the eZ subsystems. They only make new content within the classes and templates that we set up. If they wanted or needed an upgrade, or if they wanted new templates, they would call us for that. They are running on a shared host with a control panel interface (linux based), and they sometimes use the control panel to set up email.
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Gabriel Ambuehl
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Friday 03 March 2006 5:14:59 am
The main issue I see is this: if eZ had a security issue which was solved by an update, people without enough knowledge to install the update (or even KNOW they had to install it in the first place!) would be left in the cold. And it would potentiatlly give put eZPublish in a bad light if unpatched sites got hacked, too (I know everyone not updating their webapps has themselves to blame, but really, the public perception often isn't that clearcut with regards to this).
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