OSS wrote:
Peter Sebastian Masny wrote:
What are your opinions on the best groupware software out there.
I've looked into phpgroupware, egroupware, opengroupware, horde, and
a few others. Even with the demos, it's hard to get a feel for
which ones work well and which aren't quite there yet. Also, some
have normal apt sources and others have outside deb sources...
For my purposes, one of the main uses would be a filemanager
functionality that would allow for user and "common" access to the
files on the fileserver (same machine). Scheduling and other
functionality may or may not be used.
Does anyway have a good feel for which software suite might best
suit my needs?
Thank you very much in advance...
Peter Sebastian Masny
Peter,
You are light on defining needs. Based on what you listed install the
first one you find it will provide basic file management and group
calendaring.
As an off-the-top-of-my head list of follow-up question: In the file
manager are you looking for content-based search, categories,
flexible ACL, drag&drop, retention cycles & version management? On
Scheduling are you looking for common/shared/delegated calendars,
integration with PDA, synchronization with off-line calendar, public
calendars, alerts/reminders, invitations, alternative times,
attachments to calendar? How many clients, do they have a simple
group structure or overlapping groups? Do you need integration
between modules? Do you need off-line use?
Best regards Dave
Thank you for the quick response. I am light on defining my needs
because my needs are light. ;) You explain that any suite I choose
will provide basic file management, which is my first priority. I
would like to be more specific, but our needs aren't really defined yet.
I suppose my question is not so much meant to ask "which has the
following features", but rather "I have these simple needs. Which one
works best" By best I would include:
- installs without too much pain involved
- works for the users without too much pain involved for them (ease of
use & nice UI)
- in active development
- has a user community (forums, etc)
- doing the Right Thing (opensource, etc)
Is there a suite or two that stand out in this regard? Alternatively,
if they are all equivalent in these matters, then that would also
answer my question.
Thanks again for your time and help,
Peter