The "E" word corrupts a Wiki · 9 August 2007, 23:47
Confluence, The Enterprise Wiki
Pretty UI, well designed java API, missing many features that GPL / OSS Wikis provide. The latest versions require Oracle to be used as a backend. At work I have been told we have to upgrade away from the HSQLDB version of this Wiki to the Oracle version. When I asked “Why?” the only answer I was given was that the Oracle version is more “robust” and “because we use this in production.” This Wiki instance is used for internal documentation and collaboration among a group of about 40 people.
Hmm .. so we change from a reliable, lightweight, zero-administration ,mature database backend to a reliable, very heavyweight, complex database .. and we get more robustness? Doesn’t compute. Smells of licensing revenue to me.
I find Confluence to be a decent piece of groupware, I find that it is much less flexible and easy to use than many other Wikis I have used. The “E” word has corrupted Confluence.
— Max Schubert
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We have been using JIRA for about six or so months, maybe more, and are probably going to get Confluence running alongside it soon.
Managers in my workplace tend to trust nothing unless they are paying a lot of money for it.
The lack of features is discouraging.
— Study · Aug 10, 02:06 PM · #
So few companies seem to be able to make the transition from completely GPL / $0 software to a partially or fully-commercial model. Support suffers, community development suffers, really can kill a product; notice how many Wikis now compare themselves (most of them very favorably) to confluence with regards to features. I have only worked with it / on it for about a year, definitely find it to fall short compared to TikiWiki or MoinMoin or TWiki because it does not have the enthusiastic developer community those Wikis have.
— Max · Aug 10, 02:25 PM · #