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Wiki start-up taps open source to lure new users - CNET News.com
news.com.com — Looking for more users, wiki appliance company MindTouch will open source its business wiki software and a Web development framework.
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- BigTime1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4We've been using MindTouch's Wiki on an Appliance since December. It ROCKS!! It's heads and tails better than any other wiki we've tested. And it's just too cool to see it updated itself since the last time you used it.
- jlindbo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Pretty cool app, lots of potential. It seems like they have put a lot of thought into it. The managed updates are great. Looking forward to playing with the open source version and dream.
- zeit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2A great technology with huge upside benefits for business process, idea generation, change management etc.
- wackywayne, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2great site i liked it sort of
- colin7151, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2MindTouch's Wiki isnt bad, but its nothing compared to twiki (twiki.org). Aside from the fact that it has always been OSS, it has a huge variety of plugins available to extend the already impressive functionality. I use it as an enterprise documentation and collaboration tool.
It has great base functionality, a solid dev community, and enterprise class features (LDAP integration, etc).- rowanjl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh my, twiki, are you serious? Oh wait, thats alright, you nearly gave me a heart attack, twiki sounds so much like tikiwiki, which if you've ever had to visit a website using it, you will quickly realize that it is a piece of crap, often requiring well over 100 SQL queries to load the simplest of pages...
Anyhow, thanks for pointing out twiki, it does look good!
- rowanjl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh my, twiki, are you serious? Oh wait, thats alright, you nearly gave me a heart attack, twiki sounds so much like tikiwiki, which if you've ever had to visit a website using it, you will quickly realize that it is a piece of crap, often requiring well over 100 SQL queries to load the simplest of pages...
- gd007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i hope they will have hefty charge for the services.
- Sagarian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1isn't Socialtext already an open source business wiki / appliance?
- haiphong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One of the developers, roy, (who has also developed his own blogging service tabulas) has his thoughts on the big unveiling as well as other things on his blog here: http://www.tabulas.com/~roy
- tboone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0MindTouch's Wiki is AWESOME! I can totally see it being used in the education setting.
- aaronroe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just to set the story the straight, MindTouch DekiWiki has always been open source. We at MindTouch believe Open Source is a process, not an event. www.OpenGarden.org is for our dev community. We just readied our software for public consumption and we just began selling services around our DekiWiki smart appliance (MindTouch MOS). We are _not_ on of these 'open source' companies that sell for two years and look to open source to create an 'event'.
We Hope the community reponds well to our offering. Our early customers and beta users surely have. Thanks for all the diggs, I'm overwhelmed! - SoonerDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looking forward to the release tomorrow. We have been teetering between MediaWiki and TikiWiki at work. We love the MediaWiki markup, but need the security aspects of TikiWiki. Looks like DekiWiki will have the best of both worlds.
- umuff71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DekiWiki has no wiki markup, it is all WYSIWYG, storing it in XHTML 1.1.
And additionally to MediaWiki it has a image and file attachments per topic, as well as MS Outlook integration.
- umuff71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DekiWiki has no wiki markup, it is all WYSIWYG, storing it in XHTML 1.1.
- makenai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is pretty lame. Why are all the users who say this wiki software is "AWESOME" only ones who have no diggs or comments other than for this story and have joined today? Pretty blatant guys..
- umuff71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That does not mean much, not everyone is digging forever. Every one is an actual individual independent person. What should be 'blatant' about that? If you imply it is spam, or ‘cheating’, it is not!
- aaronroe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0MindTouch is all about *transparency*. In fact, we’re passionate about it. This is why we are open source are have just launched, minutes ago, www.OpenGarden.org. So you can _now_ download our software and look at our bugs. Enjoy!!
For full disclosure, as previously stated, MindTouch just began selling our MindTouch MOS and we have been pleasantly successful in the last three months. You can review some customers’ stories here: www.mindtouch.com/stories.php. In addition to sales we have had beta customers for over a year now. When this story was dugg by one of our zealous engineers we sent out an email blast to many of our users with links to the CNET article and Digg.
The majority of MindTouch’s customers are _not_ techies. However as it turns out, to my dismay, several of them created Digg accounts for the first time so they could comment on our product. It seems our users are almost as passionate (and zealous) as our employees. I’d be more than happy to provide contact info to these customers if requested offline.
- mwexler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Another wiki which requires so many prerequisites that it cannot be installed on shared hosting. Its fine to assume that everyone has complete control over their server, but it would be more realistic to try to reduce requirements to those that an average shared hoster can control. I understand that its hard to do great things without some additional libraries... but at the same time, its hard to get people to use your offerings if they can't install them. (BTW, if you assume that the average business user has control over their internal server, you'd be wrong again).
Yes, I know they sell a wiki-in-a-box to solve this problem. So, I don't expect to see them putting any effort into more reasonable requirements, but perhaps other devs can modify the code.
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