[ale] Update Linux alternative to Sharepoint

[adam]

I hate to say it, but SharePoint is nice, imo.

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Now that I'm done flogging myself, I saw this on the slashdot today:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/29/1324210/Cracking-Open-the-SharePoint-Fortress

It's really really hard to migrate off of sharepoint, if you ever choose 
to. We've been doing it at work for the past 6 months. We brute-forced 
it: grabbed a student worker and had them crawl the sites for needed 
documents one by one.

At the same time...migration isn't something I see in general for any 
web-based technologies...

Adam

Craig Button wrote:
> I actually did.  I need document sharing/collaboration, and a discussion
> forum.  Nothing fancy.  25 - 100 users max, to coordinate grant and
> scholarship awards.  And there was no mention of custom branding at all. So
> far SharePoint has only made things easier.  I'm not sure how taking 2 hours
> from turning the on switch to having 25 users playing with is to complicated
> to the average user.  Everything Linux that I've tried was too complicated
> for the average user.   Bloated and expensive, no argument there.  Due to
> restriction by the people involved I have to keep the MS Office stuff.
> We're using everything from word, excel and power point.  My fiscal
> responsibility is to keep overhead to less than 3% of initial capital.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of George
> Carless
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:58 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] Update Linux alternative to Sharepoint
> 
> Good luck. My experiences with Sharepoint have been pretty miserable, but it
> depends on what you need 
> to do with it. But I wouldn't hold out much hope of doing any custom
> branding, expanding the built-in 
> functionality to a great degree (unless you have a bunch of Microsoft coders
> at your disposal), etc.  
> What's there is _ok_ if everything else you're dealing with is MSFT-based,
> although in my experience 
> the search is pretty terrible, too.  I do like some of the ways it allows
> content to be treated in 
> different ways (lists, spreadsheet view, etc.), but even there it's
> inconsistent and rather 
> infuriating.  Oh, and it's stupidly expensive and bloated, too.
> 
> Now, to your original question, I'm not sure that it's possible to answer
> "what's a good alternative 
> to Sharepoint," but it might be easier if you'd define what you're looking
> for, what the goal is. I 
> tend to feel that for collaboration, a decent Wiki is better than
> Sharepoint; indeed, for most tasks 
> I think Sharepoint makes life too complicated for the average user... but,
> again, it depends on what 
> you're really looking for.
> 
> George
> 
> Craig Button 
> (craigb.rn at gmail.com) wrote the following 
> on Tue, Sep 
> 29, 2009 at 02:06:26PM -0400:
>> A week or so ago I posted a request for suggestions for a Linux
> alternative
>> to MS SharePoint.  I didn't get much in the way of responses, so I've had
> to
>> do some research myself.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Well I started with MS.  I downloaded demo of  MS Server 2007 and
> SharePoint
>> 2007.  Once burned to DVD I installed it on a new leftover computer with a
>> new hard drive.
>>
>>  
>>
>> 1.5 hours later I had an intranet up and running, with document sharing,
>> discussion board, email, calendar sharing and document collaboration.  I
>> added the 25 people to the domain, and it's been being tested for that
> past
>> 5 days.   Easy and I never had to look at a manual or a book, it
> recognized
>> all the hardware, took the IP address and all that kind of stuff.  Haven't
>> calculated cost yet, but we are eligible to education discount.  I figure
>> this weekend I'll look into security issues and then take the next step.
>> Linux alternatives.  Oh and the VPN is through the router so I didn't have
>> to look into that kind of stuff at this level.
>>
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