Paul Reilly wrote:
> Hello,
>> I'm looking for a good open-source Wiki software package which I can
> run on Linux. The company I am sourcing this for has been using SharePoint
> up to now, but they are not happy with it. So I'm looking for a sharepoint
> killer app, which shouldn't be too hard, since IMHO sharepoint is a
> load of *&^%^.
>> The end-user base are not very techy, so learning wiki-speak is out.
> It must:
>> - have WYSIWYG editor
> - be able to authenticate users to AD, or LDAP
> - have nice features, like export to PDF etc.
> - have search functionality
> - support document storage
> - would be fantastic if you could do 'tag' ing of pages/documents,
> and have a tag-cloud
>> Confluence is really nice - see here:
>>http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/>> but it's not open-source, and is a bit pricey.
> Has anyone found a good wiki software package which works for
> non techy people in an AD environment?
>> Paul
>
Alfresco have a new version in the works that's API compatible with
SharePoint so your users can continue using MS Office to edit documents
and it should plug right into AD. It's got full content search and will
export PDFs.
http://www.alfresco.com/media/releases/2008/07/labs-3/
Gary
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