John-Wilkes

First some background.  I am the senior IT manager for a small video production company located in Canada.  I am not going to reveal the name of the company at this time but our main focus is instructional videos for the education sector; both public and private.  With the recent coronavirus situation remote education is more important than ever and we have reached out to schools to help them develop online courses using their current teachers where the students are already familiar.  To avoid a lengthy development period I am looking at off the shelf software to quickly get a portal in place where we can showcase our talents to prospective clients.  UNA looked promising until I started reading through some of the recent posts on this site; yes, being a senior manager means that I need to do my homework before making a decision.  It appears that the owner of the UNA parent company, Boonex Pty Limited, is pushing people to switch from the full UNA release to a beta version that appears to contain bugs.  The main reason for this rather strange request by the owner is that there is some problem with the market and people are unable to have a functioning site.  I am not going to bother with linking to these discussions as it is quite clear that UNA will be more problematic than it is worth.  If I am going to do business with a company, it has to be a serious reputable company and I have having my doubts with Boonex Pty Limited.  I have never heard of a company pushing a beta application for businesses to use in a production environment; just the opposite, they often stress that beta software is for testing purposes only and should never be used in a production environment.  I need to get the portal up quickly and certainly would not use beta software even if a release candidate version as I can not risk the portal having issues; it would reflect very badly on my company and would most likely result in lost revenue.  Therefore, I think I am going to have to reject UNA as a viable platform at this time.