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I am looking for a good solution to collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, we currently just edit directly on a Samba share but it's one big mess because sometimes people leave the office with their laptops while docs are open so swap files remain there and then you nobody is sure what's going on.
Is there any good and simple open source solution based on Linux? I've tried Alfresco but it is much more than what I need, we got an internal wiki for most collaboration and I just need some solution for the stuff we need to do in Microsoft Office (mostly Excel files, the rest is in the wiki)

EDIT: Some more info as requested - we are very small group, 4 full time employees and a few freelancers.

The best idea I've got so far is just managing it in a subversion repository with a Lock-Modify-Lock policy but I'd love to hear about better solutions.

Thanks!

jscott
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WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) is free... well, included with a server license anyway. It will take care of the shared editing problem though it is certainly not open source. I haven't seen any products that offer the same tight integration with Office (Word,Excel,Powerpoint) for web collaboration yet.

Goyuix
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Google Apps? Depends on what your needs are. If your spreadsheets are complicated then no, but if you're dealing with simple stuff it may be an option.

Brad
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I guess it also depends on your office size. In the office of 75 I manage we use Alfresco extensively. We find it easy enough to do just simple revisions all the way through to drop in replacement for SharePoint, document workflow and wiki.

We primarily use it via samba or webdav, but also use it remotely via the web interface and use the permissions for giving customers access to files too.

I have found the java engine to be quite a hog to run though and Microsoft domain integration documentation quite lacking at times.

Care to define your requirements any better?

AgentK
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Personally I use Confluence Wiki for collaboration, Microsoft Office document support is excellent. I know it's not opensource and free, they provide 30-days trial. It costs only USD10 for 10 user, so it doesn't hurt to evaluate.

affanzbasalamah
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DocVerse looks like a promising solution for this. But we need to wait for google to include it :) http://www.docverse.com

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