Re: [Dorset] Open Source Document Management Tools

2013-10-02 Thread Adrian Howard
On 1 October 2013 09:57, Tim Allen t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Interesting, but it falls short in that a user has to remember to apply the lock and could be merrily committing to their local repository while someone else has the lock, hence wasting work. I think that's inherent in the

Re: [Dorset] Open Source Document Management Tools

2013-10-01 Thread Tim Allen
On 30/09/13 22:21, Adrian Warman wrote: Without knowing a bit more about the number of users, numbers of files, platforms, etc., it's hard to make specific suggestions. However... Might you consider a combination of git plus one of the many git GUI interfaces for the basic storage versioning

Re: [Dorset] Open Source Document Management Tools

2013-10-01 Thread Adrian Howard
On 1 October 2013 08:41, Tim Allen t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: In a similar vein, I was going to suggest Subversion. I assume that git, by its very nature of being a distributed VCS, cannot enforce strict locking which is essential for binary files. I have a similar situation, using

Re: [Dorset] Open Source Document Management Tools

2013-10-01 Thread Tim Allen
Hi Adrian On 01/10/13 09:19, Adrian Howard wrote: On 1 October 2013 08:41, Tim Allent...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote: In a similar vein, I was going to suggest Subversion. I assume that git, by its very nature of being a distributed VCS, cannot enforce strict locking which is essential for

Re: [Dorset] Open Source Document Management Tools

2013-10-01 Thread d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
On 30 September 2013 at 22:21 Adrian Warman warm...@gmail.com wrote: Without knowing a bit more about the number of users, numbers of files, platforms, etc., it's hard to make specific suggestions. However... Might you consider a combination of git plus one of the many git GUI interfaces

Re: [Dorset] Open Source Document Management Tools

2013-10-01 Thread Simon P Smith
On 01/10/13 13:38, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: 1. Feng Office - http://www.fengoffice.com/web/ 2. Alfresco - http://www.alfresco.com/ 3. Opendocman -http://www.opendocman.com/ b Does anyone know anything bad about any of those? As I have said, I use (1) extensively. I have tried Alfresco

[Dorset] Open Source Document Management Tools

2013-09-30 Thread d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
Hi, Has anyone any experience of Open Source Document Management Tools? We have been using a proprietary solution at work for some years now, but it is a pretty poor performer and expensive to procure and maintain, so we are looking for a replacement. Key Spec Points are: 1. Ability to store

Re: [Dorset] Open Source Document Management Tools

2013-09-30 Thread Simon P Smith
On 30/09/2013 14:41, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: Is this too much to ask for? We have identified a few tools, but a recommendation goes a long way. Terry, I find Feng Office pretty good for the basics; it's solid and reliable but only renders a few file-types to the browser ( mind maps,

Re: [Dorset] Open Source Document Management Tools

2013-09-30 Thread Adrian Warman
Without knowing a bit more about the number of users, numbers of files, platforms, etc., it's hard to make specific suggestions. However... Might you consider a combination of git plus one of the many git GUI interfaces for the basic storage versioning and control? Out of the box, git supports