[TriLUG] Open source Sharepoint Team Services portal

[Matt Pusateri]

My Corporate office uses Sharepoint, and it well uh, Sucks!.  First
off it's Active X driven so if you have a mixed OS enviroment then
sharepoint will basically only end up working for your windows
clients. it's not very untuitive, although apparently very easy to get
running.  I seems slow and overbloated for the content it's actually
serving.  But it integrates with Office 2K3 ;)

I would think a good CMS program + wiki + ??? would work better.  Some
CMS's have wiki's built in but I don't know how well they compare to
full blown wiki's.  One thing sharepoint does is allow you to have
document repositories that people can share and get notified of
updates.

If you looking for a document management solution look at Knowledge
Tree. http://freshmeat.net/projects/knowledgetree/  While I haven't
run it in production, I have evaluated it and it does seem stable.  It
may be over kill depending on what your needs are.

I agree with Kevin, you need to find out what their requirements are
before you can look for a solution.

Matt P.


On Wed, September 14, 2005 8:02 pm, Kevin Flanagan said:
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> Doug,
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> 	Kind of an open question, MS positions that solution as the
> workgroup/small business portal, the the full Sharepoint Portal Server
> as the enterprise solution.
>
>
> 	What things do you want to do?  Wiki style documentation? (pick a
> wiki)
> File revision control? (CVS, Subversion) Collaborative message board
> style things? (phpBB) There's a lot of things that you can do, could
> be
> one solution, could be several. I've put in just a few candidates for
> the things that came to me off the top of my head that the MS product
> does.
>
>
>
> Kevin
>
> Douglas Ward wrote:
>> Does anyone know of an open source program similar to Microsoft's
>> Sharepoint
>> Team Services portal? I am sensing the managerial winds shifting to
>> teleconferencing meetings online with this collaboration tool. I'd
>> like to
>> get ahead of the curve with an open source alternative if possible.
>> Thanks!
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