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April 07, 2004
Document Management Round-up
Earlier I asked for suggestions on document management for the small business and invited comments. There were some good suggestions in the forum, as well as some that came by email. They were:
- Zope which was one of my first thoughts.
- Vignette's Business Workplaces which used to be called "Instraspect" and seems to have disappeared inside Vignette's Web site.
- Xerox DocuShare
- WorldOx a solution used by small law firms according to Dennis Kennedy
- AtomZ, who I'd always viewed as a search service (in fact Windley's Enterprise Computing uses AtomZ for search.
- Crown Peak, a hosted content management solution.
Of these, I have direct experience with Zope. Zope has the disadvantage that it would likely require some upfront customization to do just what is needed. On the other hand, the other's probably do as well, if they're customizable at all. If an out of the box solution is needed, that WorldOx, Intraspect, or DocuShare might be good candidates for further study.
I'm surprised that no one mentioned NextPage or Groove. NextPage may be out of reach of small businesses and Groove is seen more as a collaboration space. On the other hand, document management is partly about collaboration---that's why you need to manage documents most of the time.
This exercise started out from a question from a friend. I think I'll recommend he look at Zope first.
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Mono Status
I had a colleague who switched his entire lab over to C# last fall. While I'd heard much good about C#, I knew I wasn't willing to switch to Microsoft for my development and certainly not willing to be locked into Microsoft platforms for deploying applications. Consequently, I've kept my eyes on the Mono Project. Edd Dumbill attended the Mono developer meeting in march and wrote a report for the O'Reilly Network. He concludes:
The Mono project is one to watch. The audacity of using Microsoft's own investments and technologies to bring developers to the Linux platform sets the tone for interesting times. If they're prepared to take on the 800lb gorilla in this way, there should be no doubt that Novell is aiming to grab the Linux platform by the neck and shake it up a bit, too.From ONLamp.com: Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? [Mar. 11, 2004]
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A Leathal Combination: MythTV+RSS+BitTorrent
In response to a post by Dave Winer, Matt Goyers says "So just think about what you could do with RSS, BitTorrent and a Media Center." I'm not sure why you'd use Media Center when MythTV is available. I suspect its just a matter of time until someone puts RSS+BitTorrent inside Myth TV. If I'd thought about it sooner, I'd have had my Networking class do it this semester for a final project.