Sorta OT - anyone replaced MSFT Sharepoint with any OSS products?

[thomas cameron]

All -

I have a friend who owns a small business and who uses Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.  As you might suspect, it's a car with
the hood welded shut, and I hate it.  I help him out with IT stuff and
I've had to fight MOSS 2007 for some time.  It is agonizingly painful,
and it's a massive security risk as far as I'm concerned.

I've heard that Alfresco can replace MOSS.  Anyone got any experience
with this kind of migration?

Thanks
Thomas

[Tosh]

On 03/08/09 04:07, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>  All -
>
>  I have a friend who owns a small business and who uses Microsoft Office
>  SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.  As you might suspect, it's a car with
>  the hood welded shut, and I hate it.  I help him out with IT stuff and
>  I've had to fight MOSS 2007 for some time.  It is agonizingly painful,
>  and it's a massive security risk as far as I'm concerned.
>
>  I've heard that Alfresco can replace MOSS.  Anyone got any experience
>  with this kind of migration?
>
>  Thanks
>  Thomas
>  
I have done this once, this is a situation you will want to avoid at all 
cost and not one you want to do twice.

Anyway, Alfresco has a module called vti, which provides sharepoint 
compatibility, so that the client doesn't know it is really talking to 
Alfresco.

To setup this envorinment you can use my tutorial, it is a quick setup 
overview to replace MS SBS (including sharepoint)
http://www.toshaan.be/publications/MLS2009-CentOS_Small_Enterprise_Server...
It is quite easy and straight forward, this should be the same for 
Fedora, unless you want to recompile from source




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[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Craig White wrote:

>  On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 21:07 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>  > All -
>  >
>  > I have a friend who owns a small business and who uses Microsoft
>  > Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.  As you might suspect, it's
>  > a car with the hood welded shut, and I hate it.  I help him out
>  > with IT stuff and I've had to fight MOSS 2007 for some time.  It
>  > is agonizingly painful, and it's a massive security risk as far as
>  > I'm concerned.
>  >
>  > I've heard that Alfresco can replace MOSS.  Anyone got any
>  > experience with this kind of migration?
>  ----
>  I have set up Alfresco but minimal experience with Sharepoint.
>
>  Alfresco is pretty cool but I don't know about feature for feature
>  comparisons...perhaps you can get that kind of thing from Alfresco's
>  web site. 
  there's a new kid in town -- nuxeo:  http://nuxeo.org and
http://nuxeo.com.  fully open source.  i installed it recently on f11
just so a friend could look at it:

  http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Nuxeo

i didn't get much further than just the installation and firing it up
to verify that it worked, so you might want to poke around and see if
has what you need.

rday
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[Phil Meyer]

On 08/02/2009 08:07 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>  All -
>
>  I have a friend who owns a small business and who uses Microsoft Office
>  SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.  As you might suspect, it's a car with
>  the hood welded shut, and I hate it.  I help him out with IT stuff and
>  I've had to fight MOSS 2007 for some time.  It is agonizingly painful,
>  and it's a massive security risk as far as I'm concerned.
>
>  I've heard that Alfresco can replace MOSS.  Anyone got any experience
>  with this kind of migration?
>
>  Thanks
>  Thomas
>
>      
Sharepoint is another MS 'embrace extend extinguish' effort.  In this 
case the 'standard' is WEBDAV that they butchered.

There are many really good WEBDAV based projects out there.  Start at 
webdav.org.

To illustrate, if you have a webdav enabled apache server available, you 
can use any modern version of MS Word to save or retrieve from it, using 
a complete URL in the file name.

Happy hunting!

[thomas cameron]

On 08/02/2009 09:56 PM, Craig White wrote:
>  On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 21:07 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > All -
> >
> > I have a friend who owns a small business and who uses Microsoft Office
> > SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.  As you might suspect, it's a car with
> > the hood welded shut, and I hate it.  I help him out with IT stuff and
> > I've had to fight MOSS 2007 for some time.  It is agonizingly painful,
> > and it's a massive security risk as far as I'm concerned.
> >
> > I've heard that Alfresco can replace MOSS.  Anyone got any experience
> > with this kind of migration?
>  ----
>  I have set up Alfresco but minimal experience with Sharepoint.
>  
>  Alfresco is pretty cool but I don't know about feature for feature
>  comparisons...perhaps you can get that kind of thing from Alfresco's web
>  site. 
Yeah, poked around a bit but I am not sure it's not using a screwdriver
to drive a nail.

>  Migration, you can just drag files into the java based smb server.
OK, I'll dig into it.

TC

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 21:07 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>  All -
>  
>  I have a friend who owns a small business and who uses Microsoft Office
>  SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.  As you might suspect, it's a car with
>  the hood welded shut, and I hate it.  I help him out with IT stuff and
>  I've had to fight MOSS 2007 for some time.  It is agonizingly painful,
>  and it's a massive security risk as far as I'm concerned.
>  
>  I've heard that Alfresco can replace MOSS.  Anyone got any experience
>  with this kind of migration? 
----
I have set up Alfresco but minimal experience with Sharepoint.

Alfresco is pretty cool but I don't know about feature for feature
comparisons...perhaps you can get that kind of thing from Alfresco's web
site.

Migration, you can just drag files into the java based smb server.

Craig


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