Sharepoint equiv for Linux

[Kirk Bridger]

My org uses Sharepoint quite extensively, and from my experience it is 
much more than a version control system.

It allows you (whichever user is given permission) to create websites 
essentially, and in those websites you can create document libraries.  
These doc libraries are what I would consider fancy version control.  It 
also allows you to create task lists, calendars that connect with 
Outlook, wikis, lists that are essentially spreadsheets, subscriptions 
to any changes to any of these things, and more.

I'm not a fan of Sharepoint and was disappointed to see it go in, but I 
have yet to see anything in the FLOSS world that can offer the same 
level of functionality.  It might take multiple applications to do so 
and then you're left with the user unable to access a single interface 
for all that.

Maybe my org is using it correctly and most aren't.  My org is not a 
small org (32,000 employees) so I can't really offer much on what the 
small business uses Sharepoint for.  I just wanted to make sure it was 
clear that it _*can*_ be much more than document libraries.

Kirk



Darryl Moore wrote:
> Damn, just when I figure I've got a through understanding of everything,
> I got to go and learn a whole other category of stuff.
>
> I found a bunch of stuff on ACL's for linux here
>
> http://www.suse.de/~agruen/acl/linux-acls/online/
>
> and here:
>
> http://beginlinux.com/server_training/server-managment-topics/1038-ubuntu-804-access-control-lists
>
> They do however only seam to offer a small incremental improvement in
> control at the expense of significantly more complication. I think Linux
> groups offer sufficient control and are much easier to administer. Or am
> I missing something?
>
> I found this for cost of sharepoint
>
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/FX102176831033.aspx
>
> yeah, that is pretty expensive I think.
>
> I found gforge in the repos so I think I'll check it out and see how it
> compares to sharepoint.
>
> mcr at simtone.net wrote:
>   
>>>>>>> "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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