Bear Group

A content management system (CMS) used to be a very expensive investment, available to only very large companies.  Interwoven implementations used to be $100K at the beginning of a deployment.

A revolution came about when open-source CMS tools started appearing about 7 years ago.  These have evolved into very robust platforms that can run anything from small sites and blogs to enterprise scale systems.

There are some significant benefits when building in open source.  It’s not simply that they are free– they do usually require customization. The biggest benefit is the development community.  Large open-source projects like Drupal have tens of thousands of developers working in their CMS framework.

One of the strengths Bear brings to its clients— besides solid scoping, good planning, interesting design and great code, of course!— is the ability to navigate and utilize the open-source development community worldwide to develop interesting features, and to get custom development direct from the people who wrote the source.