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Architecture / Installation


Tikiwiki vs. Sharepoint

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I'm building a departmental TW as a proof-of-concept. Now, the Exec VP wants to see a demo & have a discussion. However, I'm getting a lot of pushback from the Microsoft addicts, who are demanding that Sharepoint be used. I've searched the web for any comparisons, but not found any. And of course, Sharepoint is not a freebie, so I can't load it to my system to do my own analysis.

Can anyone give me some feature comparisons, pros & cons, good & bad about the difference between a Tikiwiki site vs. a Sharepoint site? I would appreciate any discussion that you can send my way.

Thanks.

posts: 1817 Catalan Countries

Hi DMerkling, and welcome to Tikiwiki Community!

I tried (As a user) sharepoint a year ago in a trial at our university. I could't browse the file galleries with Mozilla Firefox under Linux nor under M$ Windows. And there was not documentation available for any user. Luckily it didn't succeed in our university, as like BSCW (which is installed since years ago but few people use it), and they are starting to use Joomla this year to support some institutional websites.

On the departmental point of view, I made a modification of opensocks (http://sf.net/projects/opensocks + http://www.ub.edu/ecolo ) to include new features in it. It was made in UK specially designed to support a university department (or faculty) web site. However, the main coder left the project years ago, and it still uses "register_globals on", so that it's not recommended (unless somebody would recode it to allow using regiter_globals off).

Since then, some people have prepared a simple demo made upon Tikiwiki (my favourite for this and other tasks ;-), which is not functional yet, because our new head of departament is not caring for improving our website at all (communication flows in our department are a kind of mess, right now).

If interested in having a look to our very simple test with Tikiwiki (1.9.x):
http://margalef.ourproject.org
(on a shared hosting server)

HTH

Cheers


posts: 43 United States

DMerkling, our company is in a slightly similar situation, in that we're launching an internal TW site as a cross-divisional platform sponsored by our parent company, and our division's IT department is planning a local Sharepoint rollout. (We also have a third groupware option in Lotus Notes, which has been in use for several years now.) Only a couple of the IT folks have explored the TW installation, and I don't know anyone outside of IT who has yet tried any part of Sharepoint.

The obvious questions about function overlap are being raised, but they won't really be meaningful unless and until Sharepoint (and its wiki features) are fully deployed to all of our corporate divisions, which probably won't be for some time, if at all. The TW site is available to all divisions right now.

One IT manager who has actually taken the time to explore both installations has said that he thinks the two will serve complementary functions, and can coexist just fine. Time will tell, and user preference will play a big role. I'm looking forward to trying out Sharepoint, since they've been talking about implementing it here for several years now, and I've heard Great Things®. However, given the slow adoption here of Lotus Notes' group database templates and the many resultant complaints, I wonder if Sharepoint has the ease-of-use to encourage widespread adoption.



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