I have read about both Plone and Alfresco being considered as alternatives to Sharepoint and unfortunately they may not be enough if you require everything Sharepoint has too offer. Plone and Alfresco are both great applications but out of the box they are too focused to be complete replacements. Sharepoint is quite the Monolithic beast when it comes to both features and complexity. I have done some Sharepoint development and customization work in a former life err.... job and although I would not wish it on my worst competitor, it is very 'feature' rich. Either way, IMHO, these all-in-one, frameworks are not the way to go. They just get too large and encourage companies to keep their eggs all in one basket.
Although I admit, I am very biased as I work on the Datasync Suite, which is a Sharepoint competitor. Our approach is to not re-invent the wheel but rather integrate open source applications that are very good for select business units under a single web based portal. The applications we integrate are written in various languages but our Suite that ties them all together is written entirely in Python. Which has served as a marvelous glue language and base for application extensions. I'll stop there because I don't want to turn my post into more of an advertisement then it has already become but if your interested, the link is in my sig. Good Luck, Ivan Ven Osdel http://www.datasyncsuite.com/ Joe Strout-2 wrote: > > We've got a client who has been planning to use SharePoint for > managing their organization documents, but has recently dropped that > idea and is looking for an alternative. Is there any Python package > with similar functionality? > > I confess that I've never used SharePoint myself, and what I know > about is mainly from these sources: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharePoint > http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.66103.7 > > I found a reference to CPS, but its developers have dropped the Python > source to rewrite it in Java. That's disturbing, and I don't want to > recommend an abandoned platform. Anything else I should consider? > > Thanks, > - Joe > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Python-equivalent-to-SharePoint--tp19995715p20151313.html Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
