http://www.osnews.com/story/17504/Xandros_Server_2_0_Targets_Microsoft_SharePoint_Shops Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:51:22 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?222139 http://osnews.com/thread?222139 Nice to see that they try to offer some kind of MS Sharepoint replacement. It would have been even nicer if they had offered a F/OSS one. Alfresco would have been one alternative

http://www.alfresco.com/ Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (unoengborg) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?222142 http://osnews.com/thread?222142 According to the O3Spaces documentation (see http://secure.o3spaces.com/ -- sorry folks, you have to create an account first) the Workspaces plugin only works with OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, making it much less useful for companies running Microsoft Office.

Considering that Xandros Server is designed around Windows and Office, in particular with Scalix for Outlook, this doesn't make much sense. Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (davidiwharper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?222303 http://osnews.com/thread?222303 people are staying away from this article like a pack of wolves Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mark_in_rdjbrasil) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?222345 http://osnews.com/thread?222345 Hmmm, your metaphor is a bit inverted. Sort of like Yogi Berra's "No wonder nobody comes here; it's too crowded."

Anyway, the link given is for the vendor who have a blurb accessible from their frontpage.

But Thom forgot to link the story that the quoted excerpt comes from. Namely:

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5204729331.html

Geoff Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Geoff Gigg) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?222401 http://osnews.com/thread?222401 Microsoft SharePoint comes free for Windows Server 2003 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/download....) and includes 90% of the functionality of SharePoint Server. You won't probably miss that 10% unless you are working on a really "complex" environment.

SharePoint 2007 is a really really good product and any sysadmin can have an intrantet up-and-running in a matter of hours. The built-in functionality is huge and you can always buy some add-ins for extended functionality.

Sorry, but I do not see O3Spaces as a SharePoint competitor comparing cost & functionality side-by-side.

David Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yorch) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?222418 http://osnews.com/thread?222418 Microsoft SharePoint comes free for Windows Server 2003

Depends what you mean by free. It ties purely into an existing Windows infrastructure, with all the Windows Server licenes and CALs that that entails.

Did I also mention that you have to have a Sharepoint as a default web site on a server, which entails yet another instance of Windows 2003 if you already have a default site?

SharePoint 2007 is a really really good product and any sysadmin can have an intrantet up-and-running in a matter of hours.

Comparing it to something like Basecamp or anything written with Plone, it's quite limited. It's amazing how many people look at Microsoft and think "We should use that". Sort of like SourceSafe really. Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (segedunum) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?222425 http://osnews.com/thread?222425 Currently they offer their 2.0 version as trial version. Even this works with ms office. The 'whitepapers' on 2.1 on their website talk about the ms office plug in becoming available.

So i guess the upcoming release with Xandros will have this ms office plugin functionality. Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (as400) Comments