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Re: Translation costs are too high - need CMS for localization
Subject:Re: Translation costs are too high - need CMS for localization From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:Ben Davies <bdavies -at- imris -dot- com> Date:Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:47:07 -0700
I really don't think you're going to find something free that will do what
you want without requiring enough hands-on configuration that the cost of
your hours will exceed the money you would have spent for a commercial
system. Or just letting your localization vendors do it. There's a reason
why Microsoft outsources its localization instead of doing it in-house.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Ben Davies <bdavies -at- imris -dot- com> wrote:
> But we do not have any money to purchase any licenses, and our IT
> department is not interested or willing to help us setup an in-house
> database to help manage our "translation memory"; hence my question about
> open source or low cost systems.
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