On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:58:59 -0800, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to set up a wiki that my team can use to track a variety of
things like:
1) System statuses ("Intranet is down" "database will be down
Wednesday night" etc)
2) Employee availability ("Todd has PTO Tuesday, Jan 29")
3) Various notes ("if a client has problems with this app,
such-and-such has been fixing it lately")
Does it have to be open source/free?
We went through an evaluation for a wiki at my work. We ended up putting
Mediawiki and Confluence (commercial product from Atlassian) up against
each other and for our purposes we were much more impressed with
Confluence. It seemed to be more 'business' oriented for collaboration, if
I can get away with being that vague.
Mediawiki was really good if all you wanted to do was collaboration on
documentation, I mean, look at it's pedigree. Confluence was more
'enterprise' grade and was better at handling other types of information
like personal web pages, schedules, etc. The ability to dynamically hook
into an SQL database and display query results was pretty slick. There are
lots of good, free plugins for it. Plus with a commercial license purchase
you also get the source.
I also have to admit/disclose that we already had two Atlassian products
that we absolutely love and the integration with Confluence was at least a
small part of the appeal.
If you have a budget that's bigger than $0 it might be worth downloading
the evaluation and having a look at it, too.
Due to policital pressure we ended up scrapping the whole idea of a wiki,
but my boss was ready to spend the four grand for an enterprise license.
Note that they now also offer a hosted solution.
-Matt
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