[Mediawiki-l] wiki versus Word, part 2

[Benjamin Horst]

A more multi-platform friendly (and free/open source) competitor to  
Sharepoint would be Alfresco, which cooperates very well with  
MediaWiki, if you want to consider supplementing the wiki with an ECM...

Ben

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On Apr 28, 2009, at 1:45 PM, "McHale, Nina" <Nina.McHale at ucdenver.edu>  
wrote:

> Hey, all,
>
> Thanks for your quick and fantastic responses! I am loving this  
> list. :)
>
> I take the excellent point about looking at whether this is the  
> right tool for the job. However, the decision to use a wiki comes  
> out of two consultant recommendations to use a wiki and reactions to  
> a failed Sharepoint intranet installation (dating to around 2000)  
> that people hated because it required use of proprietary software,  
> in that case, Microsoft FrontPage. Moreover, the specific decision  
> to use MediaWiki was vetted through all of the proper channels, and  
> no one raised any objections.
>
> Thanks again, everyone!
>
> Nina
>
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