Sharepoint equiv for Linux

[mcr at simtone.net]

>>>>> "Darryl" == Darryl Moore <darryl at moores.ca> writes:
    Darryl> I don't know a lot about MS networks. One of the things I
    Darryl> was surprised to hear is that everybody has to ask the IT
    Darryl> department to set up folders so they can share documents,
    Darryl> and that permissions for these folders are set up on a user
    Darryl> by user basis. There does not appear to be any concept of
    Darryl> groups like in Linux.

  At the NTFS/Microsoft-Sharing level, there are groups and there are
also extended ACLs that go way beyond what Linux has. (Although ext3 and
ext4 has some of this, not commonly enabled)

  Sharepoint is not the same thing though.
  My experience is that MS is in fact very powerful, but since the
people running it are lowest-bidders, they don't know how to set things
up.

    Darryl> The other thing she told me was that they would soon be
    Darryl> roling out a SharePoint server which is suppose to be the
    Darryl> holy grail and will eleviate all their issues. What I
    Darryl> understand about Sharepoint is that it is basically a fancy
    Darryl> version control system, and is very expensive.

  Yes, that's the case. Very $$$$, and doesn't really help often: it's
too complex for most users.

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