On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Peter Arremann wrote: > On Monday 10 January 2005 09:03, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > what would folks recommend as a substitute for microsoft sharepoint? > > from the poking around i've done, it seems that one group recommends > > something as simple as a wiki, while another camp says "zope". any > > other options? > > > > rday > > The answer depends on which part of the Sharepoint hairball you want to > replace... Sharepoint is the App equivalent of Active Directory - a bunch of > unrelated technologies bastardized and thrown together in one app... > > If you look for a portal, use zope, postnuke or any of the other thousand > portals out there... if you look for colaboration on text documents you have > to go with a wiki implementation. If you're just looking for a place to share > docs the way you have it in sharepoint the answer is unfortunately doesn't > exist... > > What exactly are you trying to do? i wish i could be more specific -- the short story is that the-powers-that-be just shouted down from the mountaintop, "we are going to use sharepoint!" i'm still trying to figure out: 1) for what? 2) how can i stop them? :-) rday
