Maybe this isn’t the best forum, but I wanted to hang this out for the entire Tech team at Gazette Communications to ponder. The goal: stop paying for hugely overpriced MS licenses, get out of the hardware lifecycle business and do so with an standards-based, open architecture that, ideally, is underpinned by APIs and/or open source. This isn’t as easy as declaring we will just use GMail. Think harder and deeper – GMail functionality might be just one possible piece.
Here’s some mental water to prime the pump:
1) Watch the Google Wave video:
2) Visit Zimbra: http://www.zimbra.com/
That’s definitely not the end of the possible futures out there. Cast your mind, be creative, be insightful and, most importantly, be expressive by commenting and sharing.
tomaltman 0141 on June 11, 2009 Permalink |
I wondered if alfresco was a possible SharePoint replacement candidate – we should also take a look at MindTouch. It’s a wiki, but nothing like you have ever seen before. They are great guys too, and smart – oh yea.
OK – got to go. I have to catch a wave. Right after Springer!