> From: juke - <zarozi(a)hotmail.com>
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> ... I was asked to find out how we can move Mediawiki to some other platform would work in case we have to
That's sorta like getting married with a pre-nup agreement. For the rest of your married life, you'll be wondering...
Don't waste too much time on it, and don't waste ANY post-decision effort on it! I've seen major software projects go down because of an unreasonable focus on contingency plans. You just can't plan for anything that might happen.
Just get married. Having put energy into a pre-nup agreement will flavour the rest of your relationship... and then, some court may throw it out, anyway! For better or worse, in sickness and in health... I'd focus on showing how vast and competent the MediaWiki community is, rather than waste much time on portability.
"Yea, you can get your data out" is all the answer you need. Then some poor schmuck will be stuck porting that data for the rest of the project's lifetime.
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