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Browser and wiki workflow independence with Liferay the open source “SharePoint”

July 4th, 2009; today is the US independence day. This has put me in a reflective mood. As I was thinking about the current projects that I’m working on, I thought about this…


SharePoint 2007 is a great improvement over its ancestors: SharePoint 2003 and SharePoint 2001. The capabilities in document management make the old shared file systems obsolete. This is especially true for Microsoft Office products that integrate with SharePoint. I’m waiting for SharePoint 2010 to hopefully resolve some of the issues that the blog and wiki tools have. In the meantime, we have wiki and blog requirements that need to be met. In our search for a top flight wiki that was easy to learn and use by users; we discovered Liferay. continue reading » »

What I hope gets “fixed” in SharePoint 2010

There are some limitations in WSS 3.0/SharePoint 2007 that are hurting the adoption of SharePoint 2007 at my company. I’m sure that this is pretty common. Many users are familiar with WordPress and Foswiki/TWiki. My users are looking for easy to use editors, plug-ins, and themes that they can use on their team sites and “my sites”. With the “Revolution” in Social media and Web 2.0 users are familiar with open source web tools that allow rich-text editing and replaceable editors. They complain bitterly about editing their content, blog or a wiki inside SharePoint. continue reading » »

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