Re: [M6-IT directors] Re: [ukriders] Re: [Fsuk-manchester] "Enterprise software" - request for info

[Richard Smedley]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 09:31 -0800, Simon Pavitt | Headware wrote:
> >>> I have a friend about to walk further into the microsoft bog by going
> >>> with Sharepoint accross his company.

> > Plone is good suggestion and something that we do provide.
> >   
> 
> Drupal!
> 
> See attached presentation (which is a bit old - so I think some of 
> things it notes Drupal can't do are a bit on the modest side, especially 
> on p20). Specifically mentions Sharepoint on last page.


Hello Simon,

Interesting presentation - thanks :)
I try to keep up with Drupal (and have joined the users and
developers group here in the North West), but the scarily bad 
PHP in some 3rd party modules makes Plone less of a risk for us.

A quick look at Sharepoint's spread in the NHS pulled out an interesting
comment after the article at:
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/1493/microsoft_claims_sharepoint_success_in_nhs
21 Oct 05 11:10
"We evaluated Sharepoint and it's a better system for intranets than
some out there. I can only attribute its "success" to a very concerted
marketing drive by the likes of CareLink, combined with Microsoft's
near-ubiquity in NHS productivity software. This makes it an easy (but
not necessarily good) choice for managers looking to deploy
collaborative environments. 
" In fact after a fairly extensive evaluation/standardisation process we
discounted Sharepoint for projects of this nature. We use an open-source
product called Plone (http://plone.org) that offers many of the same
features as Sharepoint, some superior features (its accessibility is
very good which helps with DDA compliance), and which happens to be
free. Plone has some high-profile deployments in the NHS including the
NPfIT website and extranet."

A search:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=plone+site%3Anhs.uk&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
pulls out some interesting nuggets, too.

I'm sure for many such projects that Drupal would be a good fit, too.

> Keep on rocking...

Indeed 8-)

 - Richard
(actually off to choir tonight, but will try rocking as well ;)

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