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Enterprise level applications are not cheap. In particular, enterprise content management systems can send an organization's budget plans through the roof. Unless, of course, you are implementing an open source enterprise cms. So the story goes. 

According to open source enterprise content management (ECM) provider Alfresco, they are the alternative with a scalable, easy to use platform at a fraction of the price.

We read their Total Cost of Ownership for Enterprise Content Management whitepaper. The whitepaper walks you through the licensing and hardware costs associated with several propertiery ECMs and shows how clearly open source is the more inexpensive option.

But the story of project costs is not just a tale of license price. There's a lot more money to spend implementing an Enterprise CMS. Let's take a closer look.

IT budgets, almost without exception, are among the primary fiscal drains on almost any company’s annual budget. There are few budget categories that can have the dramatic, direct impact on fiscal and operational performance that IT can.

Because of this, Return on Investment (ROI) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) have become unlikely household terms in the annals of IT.