The Old Joel on Software Forum: Part 3 (of 5)

groupware

In the thread on Knowledge Management ( http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=100801&ixReplies=55 ) nobody seemed to have an all-in-one solution and recommended a combination of wiki and weblog and document repository.

I stumbled on eGroupWare on SourceForge, which seems to combine all of these things, except the file repostory. A search for "groupware" on SourceForge also turned up Tiki CMS/Groupware, which had many of the same features, with a "file gallery."

So it seems someone has wrapped a software package around these requirements.

Both can be found here:

https://sourceforge.net/search/?words=groupware

They may not fit your needs 100%, but may be worth looking at.

www.MarkTAW.com
Tuesday, January 13, 2004

I'm a newbie to this area, but shouldn't a file repository be the main feature, or one of the main features, of a groupware offering?

Maybe I'm not thinking about the same thing.

Nigel
Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Hmmm. I guess these groupware programs want to be the document, so to speak. "Gather your requirements in the Wiki, not in Word."

www.MarkTAW.com
Tuesday, January 13, 2004

have you seen openGroupware?
http://www.opengroupware.org/

gunga
Thursday, January 15, 2004