Exactly. I've been managing our multiple-wiki install at my
employer for almost a year now. Several departments are
using them as an "internal whiteboard" if you will. I actually
was looking at a job recently that would've titled me as
a "Wiki Technology Consultant." I think this definitely
shows that wikis have a place in the corporate world and
the "Enterprise-ready" MediaWiki is just waiting on a
company to basically market the product, as Tim said.
-Chad
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Dirk Riehle wrote:
Confluence is "enterprise ready" i.e.
has a lot of features that
MediaWiki doesn't have and that the public Internet community
typically doesn't care about.
Confluence is based on an open source wiki engine,
www.snipsnap.org,
which unfortunately is stalling. (But is still one of the best engines
out there IMO.)
Cheers,
Dirk
"Enterprise ready" is just a marketing term. It doesn't actually say
anything about what features it has and what features it doesn't have, and
lots of enterprises are using MediaWiki out of the box.
Which brings me to one big thing that Confluence has but MediaWiki
doesn't: a marketing team. Add to that a sales team and professional
support services, and you have a convincing case for any corporate executive.
MediaWiki really needs very little development work done in order to take
over the corporate world. But there is no support organisation to pay for
it, so it doesn't get done. With commercial support funding development,
MediaWiki could easily become the MySQL of wiki engines.
-- Tim Starling
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