Comments on: Three myths Microsoft tells Russia

Microsoft has gotten better in its open-source rhetoric. Now it just needs to make sure its far-flung outposts get the message, too. Microsoft Russia's opinion on open source is stuck in the Cold War.

[PACSferret]

.... and don't forget MS didn't 'come up' with SQLServer - that was a fork of the sybase product !

[Simplicius]

As Mark Twain would have put it:

"Lies, Damn Lies and Microsoft's FUD"

[amadensor]

MS Bob was pretty innovative...

[enderandrew]

I just took a look at Alfresco. We just invested a good deal of money into a Sharepoint Server, only to realize that for everything we want from it, we likely under-purchased hardware and licenses. It's pretty expensive. I would have liked to have discovered Alfresco earlier. However you claim it has better integration than Sharepoint.

The demo for Alresco shows creating users seperately. Does it not integrate with AD? I'd consider that a major integration point. The demos on the site also don't really show any integration directly with MS Office. I'll download the software and take a look, but I'm not sure how it integrates better than Sharepoint.

For my money, an ideal entreprise CMS system would:
* Handle document sharing
* Handle workflow
* Handle versioning
* Integrate calender functions with office suite
* Integrate document revisioning with office suite
* Integrate communication with email/office suite/messaging (Jabber perhaps?)
* Integrate security permissions from AD and OU's.
* Integrate web-meeting ideally, but at the very least allow one window in a web browser that allows a group to view a document together, while chatting about said document.

Where does Alfresco rank in those categories?