I have just run a query using intranet software on Google Insight to see current trend and here is the snap shot I’ve got. Is this simply the sign of credit crunch? While the trend is generally lower, it shows sharp increase in the developing countries such as India or Indonesia. I guess this picture speaks for itself.
I today read with real interest what apparently is the first of a total of 3 articles on intranet journal by Paul Chin. I encourage you to take a look.
The theme is choosing between Open Source and Commercial intranets. He discusses the ideas that we have reviewed for such a long time when developing Claromentis, a commercially available and supported intranet system that is developed on LAMP, coded entirely in PHP, is completely customizable and has a comprehensive API for external PHP developers to extend our systems to meet the needs of their clients.
We are currently working with 2 major corporations, one in the USA and one in the UK, where open source developers are working with our own core team to provide significant functionality on top of our framework.
I will be very interested to read Paul’s conclusion - and to see if we at Claromentis really do suppply, as we have alwasy argued - a third way.