On Wednesday, December 07, 2011 08:51:40 AM Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 17:38 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
Or they just can't get the support from any "other than Windows" suppliers! Our company has just gone through the process, and were SERIOUSLY looking at a Linux solution (in particular, Novell).But after months of trying to get support, both off the web and locally (Qld, Aus.) we gave up and have gone for another Microsoft solution. Really frustrating! 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...
Yours sincerely,
Roger Oberholtzer
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