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How does Trac compare to SharePoint (WSS3)? I am looking at building a collaboration platform that does a lot of what Sharepoint offers. Looking at using Trac

• bayareaguy 18y ago
  This was about 4 years ago. SharePoint may have improved since then, but the main thing that I didn't like about it compared to Trac was it forced you into a single structure which was hard to change, especially if you weren't the person who originally set it up. When I joined, a SharePoint structure was already established and filled with out of date design documents. Unfortunately nobody (other than me) wanted to it bring up to date because they were already behind schedule getting things actually working. This in itself is not suprising - unless it's specifically part of their job, whoever sets up this kind of collaboration software generally won't to spend the ongoing effort to keep it organized properly and up to date so rigid structures that look good at the start often end up looking like dilapidated housing projects from the 1970's. Part of the reason SharePoint sucked was that it offered no intrinsic editing, rendering or linking features. All it could really do is offer a place to put other documents. With Trac or any other wiki, editing and linking pages is trivial so its less of an ongoing effort to keep up to date. Furthermore anyone with the time is free generally free to create a separate collections of pages with whatever organization they want. This means newcomers can easily create new structures that reflects the current engineering design while referring back to the old information.