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Any favorite Document Storage software?
QUESTION:A customer of mine is looking at "Document Storage"
software. The one he is currently looking required M$
SQL server, Outlook and M$ Office. The customer
currently has a Red Hat 9, Samba server and Windows
clients.
Do any of you have a favorite "Document Storage"
software package written for Windows Clients and a Linux
server?
ANSWER: -There are many 'document management system' out in the open, a simple
research with google should return a lot of results, the big problem is
that all of them (or almost all) are web-based and they _do_not_
integrate with your client. You have to download the document, edit it
and then upload it again
-Are you looking for something that just provides documents (read only) to
most of the users (where only the maintainers can modify documents), or
storing user modifiable documents?
Our company uses a document retrieval system on a Red Hat apache server
that provides latest versions of company literature as PDF files
(generated on the fly by PHP) and drawings as TIF files, with different
levels of security for accessing certain classes of documents. It can
also assemble PDF and/or TIF files into PDF format to save locally or
e-mail. Since it is accessed from a web browser, the client OS does not
matter. It was written by a former employee who is now an outside
consultant, so it may not be open source unless it was derived from
something that was.
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