[ale] Two offices, one data pool

[Geoffrey Myers]

Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Is that you Yoda?
+1

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Payne
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:53 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Cc: Jim Kinney
> Subject: Re: [ale] Two offices, one data pool
> 
> Mine vote is on Alfresco, very need you will need to get Tomcat, but
> it be customize, as sharepoint and there both a free and paid support
> version.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> put the data source where both offices have crappy access speed.
>>
>> Given the desktop clients they will be using most likely M$office. So
>> "shared data" means word files. To prevent clashes you need a document
>> management tool. Knowlegetree is one. Alfresco is another.
>>
>> You _could_ set up a subversion repo and scripts to merge xml docs ....
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>>> Short and sweet this one will be.
>>>
>>> I have two offices, 500 miles apart.  (Second one is just getting
>>> started.)  They need access to the same pool of ~ 200 GB data, ideally
>>> without walking all over top each other.
>>>
>>> Presently in use: Samba 3.5, with Windows 7 client systems (can't get
>>> them to change their minds on that...).
>>>
>>> Oh, yeah, and a commodity connection between the two offices.
>>>
>>> And the people in both offices are likely to be editing the same files
>>> at the same time, so some system that works well over low-bandwidth
>>> links and lets locks be held and communicated between both sides would
>>> be win/win...  or something where the one server can hold the data and
>>> the second server can cache data that hasn't yet been invalidated...
>>>
>>>        --- Mike
>>>
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