Sorta OT - anyone replaced MSFT Sharepoint with any OSS products?

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Mon Aug 3 04:17:16 UTC 2009


On 08/02/2009 09:56 PM, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 21:07 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> All -
>>
>> I have a friend who owns a small business and who uses Microsoft Office
>> SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.  As you might suspect, it's a car with
>> the hood welded shut, and I hate it.  I help him out with IT stuff and
>> I've had to fight MOSS 2007 for some time.  It is agonizingly painful,
>> and it's a massive security risk as far as I'm concerned.
>>
>> I've heard that Alfresco can replace MOSS.  Anyone got any experience
>> with this kind of migration?
> ----
> I have set up Alfresco but minimal experience with Sharepoint.
> 
> Alfresco is pretty cool but I don't know about feature for feature
> comparisons...perhaps you can get that kind of thing from Alfresco's web
> site.

Yeah, poked around a bit but I am not sure it's not using a screwdriver
to drive a nail.

> Migration, you can just drag files into the java based smb server.

OK, I'll dig into it.

TC




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