I concur with James - on the qeustion what your client needs from Sharepoint. Sharepoint is obstensiably a means of allowing end-users to add content to a website. There heaps of ways of approaching this - hence the difficulty in giving a precise answer. You really need to go up a level so to speak, and ask what the business need is and from that what functionality is required.
One big problem I have from the functionality that Sharepoint provides is that it tends to be very controlled by templates. A lot of Sharepoints that we have in my workplace are very document focussed. I tend to believe that this is often the wrong approach as it doesn't lend itself for capturing information in small grabs. (Which is exactly what Wiki technology allows). That being said, this might be exactly the functionality you need. Other questions that need to be asked are the a few publishers and many consumers of the information - or is everyone a publisher. Also are is a workflow required around publishing the information - that is do you need a system that allowed a trail of approval before the information makes it to the web. More questions - will you be transforming data dynamic from an existing data source. The problem is that there a a zillion content-management-systems & document-management-systems and wikis and blogs and the like out there. Sharepoint out of the box does some of these (some well and some not so well) - but what business problem do you need to solve? On 6/23/06, James Purser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:31 +1000, T Murray wrote: > Hi guys, > > Microsoft has a server tool called Sharepoint that one of my clients > has requested i install - however being that it is MS im not > interested in deploying it. However i would be interested if there > was a linux equivalent.... so the question is : > > Anyone know if there is a GNU/Linux equivalent of MS SharePoint? > > -- > Regards, > Okay, before any recommendations, let me just say "Aaaaaarrrrggghhh! Share Point!" Now that I have that out of my system, the key is to why they want SharePoint installed? Do they want it for plain doc sharing? Bulletin Boards? Or the collaborative tools that come with SharePoint and Office? -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Linux Australia Update http://james.k-sit.com - My Blog http://k-sit.com - My IT Consultancy http://localfoss.org - LA Update Podcast, LUG Roundup and more Skype: purserj1977 SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEm6g5yx477OLqpLMRAoMrAJ9bYq7ADTGcAOiHeV42MWVezzlbRACffQVf EcwOjDlAT0OZYUUIV1ETjKs= =8ULY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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