On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 02:59 -0500, LinuxIsOne wrote:
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Roger Oberholtzer
wrote: In our company, they are doing all this stuff with sharing documents and such. Sharepoint, I think it is. Once you start the MS path with that, you are pretty much committed. In a company of 8000 engineers, reworking all that document integration is not likely to happen. Unless migration is (1) automated, (2) bullet-proof, (3) feature comparable + extras to warrant the move in the first place, (4) makes the bean counters happy.
Is there a supported Linux alternative to Sharepoint? I mean a complete professional supported product. Not bits and pieces the average IT department will never get working.
I think MS upped the ante and don't see Office or simple file sharing as the way to lock in customers. It is their infrastructure products such as Sharepoint that does the trick these days. These are much more difficult to duplicate in an open source solution as they are undocumented services. If you thought SMB was tricky to reverse engineer...
You mean to say that MS is better?
Better than what? I was making an example of something that leads a company to be strongly committed to MS. It used to be SMB storage. SAMBA has pretty much dealt with that (minor warts aside). It used to be proprietary document formats. LibreOffice is a viable alternative in that area. Now it is information management services like Sharepoint that attract customers. I do not think there is an open source alternative. And, as more companies adopt Sharepoint (and it is a popular MS offering), the desktops need Sharepoint compatibility. Only MS Windows has that. Google Docs/Cloud/Mail/Calendar/etc is trying to be a contender. I doubt that an open source offering of a third option will take off. After all, SMB and Word were dealt with by open source being compatible with them - not by offering an alternative that was different. The Linux users in my company are a rare breed. Happy. But rare. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org