Hi Free Folk, (I'm not talking about Star Trek :) I have a friend about to walk further into the microsoft bog by going with Sharepoint accross his company. Does anyone have info about or pointers to good free alternatives for this kind of enterprise level, document/content management solution? Or know of any good discussions of the subject available online? Any thoughts much appreciated, Fraser How
On 03/12/2007, Fraser How <fraz@...> wrote: > Hi Free Folk, > > (I'm not talking about Star Trek :) > > I have a friend about to walk further into the microsoft bog by going > with Sharepoint accross his company. > > Does anyone have info about or pointers to good free alternatives for > this kind of enterprise level, document/content management solution? Or > know of any good discussions of the subject available online? > > Any thoughts much appreciated, While I've not much experience with it personally, we use Plone at work, which might be worth looking into as it's quite enterprise-y. I can't say how similar it is to Sharepoint though because I've not really used Sharepoint. The main problem I think with using an alternative will be the lack of integration with MS Office - Sharepoint gives the option to 'open this in Word' which users seem to like (you might even be able to publish from Office too but I'm not sure), however if Sharepoint has yet to be used then the users won't be able to miss those 'features'.
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> > I have a friend about to walk further into the microsoft bog by going > > with Sharepoint accross his company. > > > > Does anyone have info about or pointers to good free alternatives for > > this kind of enterprise level, document/content management solution? Or > > know of any good discussions of the subject available online? This needs to be looked into and evaluated since I have noticed this arise before. I will circulate (apologies for cross posting). As noted it is tricky for us FS users to evaluate such products. hmm. Plone is good suggestion and something that we do provide. suggestions? -- -- Matthew Edmondson matthew@... Consultant www.M6-IT.org M6-IT CIC 07807487470 0117 9510812 Sustainable Third Sector IT solutions. PRINCE2[TM] Project Management Web services * Back-ups * Support * Training & Certification * E-Mail M6-IT is a Community Interest Company, limited by guarantee. Registered in England & Wales, Registration No: 6040154 11 St Marks Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY9 7DT Northern Office: 4, Hollins Green, Bradwall, Cheshire, CW10 0LA.(Continue reading)
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On 04/12/2007, Fraser How <fraz@...> wrote: > Thanks Lucy and Matthew for your suggestions - will investigate plone. > As you say Lucy, the integration with MS Office is important for people > in that world... hmmm, ponderations continue... Dunno if it will fit your requirements, but apparently OpenOffice will save to MediaWiki format and MediaWiki is certainly a scalable solution..
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 09:31 -0800, Simon Pavitt | Headware wrote: > >>> I have a friend about to walk further into the microsoft bog by going > >>> with Sharepoint accross his company. > > Plone is good suggestion and something that we do provide. > > > > Drupal! > > See attached presentation (which is a bit old - so I think some of > things it notes Drupal can't do are a bit on the modest side, especially > on p20). Specifically mentions Sharepoint on last page. Hello Simon, Interesting presentation - thanks :) I try to keep up with Drupal (and have joined the users and developers group here in the North West), but the scarily bad PHP in some 3rd party modules makes Plone less of a risk for us. A quick look at Sharepoint's spread in the NHS pulled out an interesting comment after the article at: http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/1493/microsoft_claims_sharepoint_success_in_nhs 21 Oct 05 11:10 "We evaluated Sharepoint and it's a better system for intranets than some out there. I can only attribute its "success" to a very concerted marketing drive by the likes of CareLink, combined with Microsoft's near-ubiquity in NHS productivity software. This makes it an easy (but not necessarily good) choice for managers looking to deploy(Continue reading)
Hello Fraser, On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 15:16 +0000, Fraser How wrote: > I have a friend about to walk further into the microsoft bog by going > with Sharepoint accross his company. > > Does anyone have info about or pointers to good free alternatives for > this kind of enterprise level, document/content management solution? Or > know of any good discussions of the subject available online? Hello Fraser, Plone and Drupal have been recommended elsewhere in this thread, but your friend should also be asking about accessibility. Is the company exempt from providing an accessible site to its employees? If not, and if they are going to be using Sharepoint, are they ready for the hoops to jump through to achieve AA-Conformance? E.g. not using WebParts. Obviously being locked into a monopolist's platform, and forced to use particular (recent and expensive) versions of their software is also a consideration - but many firm's grasp of IT strategy is strangely weak on this point :-/ Cheers, - Richard -- --(Continue reading)
Fraser How <fraz@...> writes: > Thanks Lucy and Matthew for your suggestions - will investigate plone. > As you say Lucy, the integration with MS Office is important for people > in that world... hmmm, ponderations continue... What is that integration, exactly? Is it just a case of editing documents in a word processor and saving them back? I have to say I don't understand what Sharepoint does, exactly, other than cause trouble in my limited experience. (It's thought to have been the root for the systems next to Lucy's office becoming a warez distribution centre recently, for instance.) Also I recall that it wasn't accessible to non-Windows (Internet Exploiter?) clients through the web interface when I was expected to retrieve documents from it. When it was causing grief at my previous establishment, in a way I can't recall, I bookmarked things which looked suitable for what people actually seemed to want to do. (With the proviso that they wouldn't do the right thing and use SGML/XML markup with appropriate tools.) Here's the relevant bookmarks extract for what it's worth; it may have irrelevant entries (especially assuming commercial support is relevant) and some may not actually be free software. I don't know why Drupal isn't in there. I guess some other things I have bookmarked under `general groupware' might also be relevant as they typically seem to provide document management.
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