re Mike McBride's hunt for that elusive prey, the Intranet Portal business sponsor..
I don't know what to tell you. I think search is the single most important reason to have a portal, but it's hard to sell search to a business guy.
Maybe they do get it, and they don't have a burning need yet. Maybe, you're already doing too good a job of organizing their IT world?
Sharepoint's advantage (in your case Mike. Its a huge disadvantage at the 40,000+ employee enterprise where i work) may be the licensing - per seat. The other big players wanna charge you tens of thousands per server cpu. Not that the open-source crowd doesn't have anything to offer. The integration widgets (portlets...web parts...whatever) are a usually a big selling point, but dont lose sight of administration, customization, and search.
My .000000002$
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Thanks for sharing your ideas. I think the big thing where I work is just showing people that sending an email to all staff or having a time-wasting meeting aren't the only options when it comes to keeping everyone informed and sharing information vital to people's work. Stuff like a group blog based on specific projects, or having a standard set of RSS feeds that you know everyone in your department sees, or creating a form to document requests for reporting or mailings would help everyone spend less time meeting, discussing,meeting again in to re-discuss, or emailing a group and then having to forward responses back to the group, etc. I think it's those very basic things that could be done more efficiently, but people don't get how having an intranet portal gets them there. Creating a completely free, open-source, site gives me the opportunity to show them how it does.
In that case, I would start looking at Exo.
It does have a number of built in portlets that address mail and collaborative discussions.
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