Public Swikis
Mark Guzdial
guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
Sat Dec 18 14:56:40 UTC 1999
>So, our firm's IT department is *FINALLY* thinking about internets.
>I showed the guy your site, and the Squeak swiki, and he's been
>playing around with it somewhat. His answer was along the lines of,
>"so what's the difference between this and giving each team member a
>copy of frontpage or some similar thing?"
>
>Now that you are in the business of selling this stuff, how do you
>sell it (on features at least)?
At Georgia Tech, we get this question quite frequently. Our answer
boils down to two points:
- FrontPage plus an NT server is a nice Webpage-creation
solution...for a Windows environment. Here at Tech, about 30% of the
students run Linux, almost all the rest run 95/98/NT, about half the
faculty have Sun or SGI workstations on their desk, and much of the
other half has Macs. If I pick a platform, I lose an important
segment of my potential audience.
- And even a FrontPage et al. solution doesn't come off nearly as
nice for collaborative work as a Wiki-like space. *Your page* is a
very easy way for me to connect from my space to your space.
Mark
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