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Developing an Intranet using Alfresco

  • 19-12-2013 03:44PM
    #1
    JimFin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭


    Any experience/advice appreciated.

    We are considering migrating a corporate intranet from Sharepoint 2001 to Alfresco for licencing reasons. Has anyone any experience of using Alfresco for developing an intranet and would they recommend it as the best doc management open source software out there suitable for use as an intranet?

    The plan is to implement on a lamp stack in a virtual env.


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  • #2
    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo


    Hi Jim,
    I've not implemented Alfresco but I had understood it was developed in Java (the Spring framework specificially) and as such it is not a LAMP based solution. Now saying that it will run on Linux, Apache (with a Tomcat servlet container) and MySQL database...so that'sLAM just missing the P(hp).

    I do know an Austraian based company that has implemented exoPlatform for a publishing company and they (the publishing company) were very happy with the results. It looks comparable to Alfresco.
    http://vschart.com/compare/exoplatform/vs/alfresco-cms

    One point to make re both these projects is they're both (to my knowledge) follow the "commercial" open source route. Now I see no isssue with commercialisation of open source but I have experience with a popular open source ERP which had very restrictive practises which benefited them commercially but had a detrimental on quality as they would not accept bug fixes from outside the company (to retain copyright control) - now when I see companies offering commercial & community versions I look closely to decide is the open source version limited in someway and does the community version have a strong community keeping it up to date with bug fixes.

    If you make any progress do please come back and let us know - I am curious about alfresco too.


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