Will, I'd stay away from SharePoint 2003 or 2007...even if some of your folks are already more comfy with its' features, I have to tell you that the actual WYSIWYG editor is very buggy even in 2007, and the workarounds needed to get even simple web parts to work are...arduous at best, and not well-documented in 2007. 2010 is a bit better thought out imo, but still not very administrator or user-friendly unless you are thoroughly trained or know someone who knows it all. I've seen serious problems with no notice when rolling back files and properly assigning group security roles in SharePoint 2007 (but that was mostly due to my client's implementation issues, probably not so much due to the product).
My only experience with other actual Wiki software is limited and user-level, so I can't be of much help for a better suggestion. For lighter-weight document sharing I use Google Apps and/or Google Docs, or actual web-based discussion tools (none of which are probably what you're looking for). ---pam On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Will Dennis <wden...@nec-labs.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > We are currently using TWiki 4.x in our company as a company-wide > web-based information and collaboration system. It's time for an > upgrade, but in the meantime, we've gotten some feedback from upper > management that they don't like the way certain things work (they don't > like to use [i.e.,remember] markup, and the WYSIWYG editor doesn't > always make the desired edits in the correct format; no "drag-and-drop" > file attachments; etc.) We have an older version of Microsoft SharePoint > (the free one that came with Windows 2003 Server) that is used as a > management collaboration website, and I believe that is coloring their > perception of TWiki... We don't really want to make the jump into > SharePoint from not only a learning-curve perspective, but also a > content-migration perspective... So, does anyone have any suggestions on > another web-based collaboration system that we could take a look at? > Commercial as well as Open-Source is fine, but cannot be very expensive > (also, needs to have a free eval version available, as we don't want to > buy before we try :) > > Thanks, > Will > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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