Re: linux equivalent for MS sharepoint?

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On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 07:10 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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
<snip...>
> > 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? :-)

This doesn't sound good at all. If it's the powers that be who are
saying this, the real answers to your questions are:

1) They probably don't know themselves, but they got "sold" with a
really flashy demo...

2) You personally can't unless you're their boss - that train has
already left the station. Your best hope is that, if the answer to
question 1 is correct, they will fail because they actually don't know
why they want what they do. In this case, no matter what technology you
deploy, failure is almost certain because the expectations from
management and what's actually possible will be 2 very different things.

You can, fortunately, use Firefox as a front-end to SharePoint for most
things. Also, if you can get specific requirements that don't involve
seamless collaboration with Office 2K3, the chance you can put something
together using other technology is probably pretty good.

HTH...

Cheers,

Chris

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