We are looking at some options for creating a intranet.

We are looking at software like PlanetINTRA from ensim and any other options you might know about

Let me know if you have any suggestions

Joe

Could you enlighten me as to what INTRAnet means in your particular case?

Originally posted by muppie
Could you enlighten me as to what INTRAnet means in your particular case?
Not going to be a definate answer, but I'll try...

Intranet=website/place/whatever for employees of a company to interact, work, get news, etc. An internal site...

Thanks dogma

Joe

What made me wonder was that why you asked about it... is there any special things that you need for this intranet?

I would just stick a computer, install freebsd, apache, mail server samba etc and it will work like a charm....

So I guess there must be something special that you need?

Its a little more complex then that

A free one out there we are looking at is phpgroupware.com

Its free, and is very interesting

Joe

Ahhhh so you are looking for some sort of CMS (Content Management System) ?

phpgw is certainly interesting but a bit hard / involved to set up. An easy one is mamboserver www.mamboserver.com although not as powerful / flexible as phpgw, mambo achieved what it tries to be and pretty well so too

What was the outcome, Joe?

I'm looking at putting together a firm intranet as well and looking for solutions.

Originally posted by JBIZ718
Its a little more complex then that

A free one out there we are looking at is phpgroupware.com

Its free, and is very interesting

Joe

Beau ( thats me ) don't no Intranet stuffage, however a client of ours uses moregroupware.com I thought it might be usefull.
:homer:

Intranets basically need 6 components
- web server
- dB server
- dynamic content generation & publishing
- workflow engine [user authentication and access rights, action-> escalation-> routing and closure cycle]
- bulletin board &
- an email engine [can integrate an existing server or intranet specific mail boxes can be created]

Of these, the workflow engine is the most crucial and can make or mar the whole system

If you are looking for a stable,scalable intranet, my suggestion would be to go for PostgreSQL, Apache & PERL on FreeBSD; there are many scripts and components available in perl that can be put together by a PERL developer to make a parameterized intranet engine where you can create applications on the fly

http://perlproducts.com/archive/scriptlib/index.html

If you buy commercial off the shelf intranet engines [COTS as we call them] you may have a jump start...
.... but intranets have a nasty habit of exponentially increasing demands, and imagination is the limit when it comes to applications that can be implemented on them
[like internal classifieds, knowledge dB, leave application system, document management system, asset tracking, minutes of meeting, paperless office and what not] and you will soon find the COTS limiting

You can try www.illumination.net.au where they are giving you an intranet in a box for 2200 AU $ or roughly 1200 US$

Keep us posted on how you go with it..

Cheers
Balaji

Originally posted by Haze


Beau ( thats me ) don't no Intranet stuffage, however a client of ours uses moregroupware.com I thought it might be usefull.
:homer:

Hmm, looking very tempting. Any idea how much of a hassle it is to install?

Actually we still havent found what were looking for.

We did look at a bunch, Including

PlanetINtra
PHP- intra or what ever and a bunch of others.
intranets.com

We found there was really nothing out there that gives us the total package at even a decent price point

But we are still looking

Joe

I have been looking as well and haven't found anything.
I think my only choice is to go with either phpgroupware and roll my sleeves and start coding using their framework. However I would prefer the following two:

phpsitemanager (the CMS implementation of the framework is still very new but the framework itself has been solid and very well designed)

binarycloud
The framework isn't even finshed but it's very well thought out, very well structured and soon will be implementing a CMS on top of it. I am sitting and waiting for this to come out. I am involved or more... lurking in their development and checking out the progress

However if you are looking for a "quick slappin and done" I have yet to see anything that I can use.. :(

If you found any let me know

Originally posted by Jeff Rambo


Hmm, looking very tempting. Any idea how much of a hassle it is to install?

Compared to the hassle it used to be, I hear its quite straight forward now. I haven't done it myself, but will soon.

www.intranets.com grab a demo, and test it out.

sorry saw you already mentioned it. Check this out.
http://intrasmart.com/

For an intranet that was on a closed network I'd use Win2K/IIS 5 w/ SQL 2000 server, or if you can't afford that, Access 2000. If you want an open intranet, get a webhost with database access (again, I'd choose Windows for intranets), and write a little script yourself.

~SkiE

Skie,

I agree with you , much as I dislike Microsoft.. ASP on IIS is really a smooth solution for intranets - in fact our corporate intranet used by 1200 people is running on an NT 4 with SQL 7.0 on a PIII 256 MB , IDE harddisk

Cheers
Balaji

We decided on PHProjekt. [http://www.phprojekt.com]. Once it's up and running, I'll let you know how it goes.