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How can I use XMP in Sharepoint metadata?

Looking for an open source alternative to SharePoint for my own home/non-enterprise use.

  • Looking for an open source alternative to SharePoint for my own home/non-enterprise use. I am looking to do the following things: 1. Archive scanned receipts, bills. etc .. 2. Keep track of ideas, shopping lists and the like 3. Repository for URLs, Links, Documents 4. Photo/Video storage I like SharePoint's interface and it's ability to create lists, libraries, tables, and similar structures. I also like the web-part functionality that SharePoint has. What I don't need is the Enterprise level tie-ins that SharePoint has. I would like to be able to administer and add content to my portal all through a web browser. No need for Microsoft Office or other client support. Everything through the browser. I have looked at and though I find it impressive, it seems more targeted to creation of articles rather than the lists and databases I am looking for. I have also looked at http://www.alfresco.com but it seems to be targeted at the Enterprise. I should also mention that this is something I want to host on my own rather than use Google and or Yahoo. So, basically I am looking for something similar to SharePoint in functionality though slimmed down and runs on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) platform. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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    I would think that any wiki app could do what you want. MediaWiki, maybe?

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http://www.plone.org http://www.zope.org Hmmm - lists, I'm not sure. There may be a plug-in mobule to do this.

jkaczor

Plone and Zope are both based on Python which I want to steer clear of. Also, from what I have read Plone has a fair amount of overhead. Though it is indeed a powerful CMS option I prefer to stay within the LAMP arena. I have been reading about and even installed it locally using . The install was smooth just like Joomla!. Now to find out if it support lists, libraries, and web parts like SharePoint does.

DerekTheGeek

Well - from my understanding the "P" in the LAMP stack was originally meant to be Perl - but can easily refer to PHP - or Python. Sorry - I've heard too many horror-stories to recomend anything based on PHP :-( Give me a completely dynamic language (Python or Ruby) or a completely static one (Java or .NET/Mono) - but never again a mix of a half-baked script language embedded into page templates (PHP, ASP, Perl, etc. *shudder*) Well - good luck, it would be nice if you eventually updated this question with your findings - we would all be interested.

jkaczor

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