21 Jun
2007
21 Jun
'07
5:13 p.m.
XWiki was chosen over TWiki for many reasons, each decision was based on factors of
different priorities to different decision makers. Here are the 5 major reasons:
1. XWiki was written to provide an eXtended - wiki (hence X - Wiki) that would include the
best features out there and based on what XWiki creator Ludovic, who was a TWiki user,
thought was missing and need improvements in TWiki.
2. XWiki was written with the aim of making it a modular and flexible platform. It is one
of the few wikis to offer the easy application building capabilities and do so natively.
3. XWiki is written in JAVA. XWiki is closer to large Enterprise needs than TWiki because
the Java platform is chosen by lots of large companies.
4. XWiki has a great user support group which is critical to any open source software.
5. XWiki has a tough and convenient access control system which is crucial to many
applications.
For an up-to-date detail comparison between XWiki and TWiki, see this page
http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/TWiki+XWiki
For a list of applications built on XWiki platform, see this page
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/References/
For a view of what is coming about bug fixes and upgrades in XWiki commuity, see this
page
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
On Jun 21, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Pavel wrote:
My personal choice of XWiki was driven by the
following considerations
1. I know only java, thus can maintain wiki in java only.
2. I can't afford Confluence license for just a personal wiki. If
only they
had appropriate license for this niche...
3. From the remaining alternatives (not numerous unfortunately)
XWiki looks
like the most appropriate one.
That doesn't sound very encouraging as you're basically saying you've
picked XWiki not because it was good but because there were no other
good solution... ;)
That said, it's very good that you'd have picked Confluence as this
is a good way for us to find out what needs to be improved in XWiki
so that you'd pick it if money wasn't an issue, from your POV. Would
you mind listing things you don't like in XWiki or things that are
missing?
Thanks
-Vincent
-----Original Message-----
From: wangwh(a)att.net [mailto:wangwh@att.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:01 AM
To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org
Subject: [xwiki-users] xwiki vs twiki
Hi, all XWiki users,
I know this is a tough question....
Anyone has experience in using TWiki and willing to point out why
would
anyone choose XWiki over TWiki?
I know both are pretty good, both are open source, both have many
supporters, both can do almost the same things, but for someone
new, what
are the reasons to consider to choose XWiki?
For it is written in JAVA? for the user group? for the future
direction? for
the access control?
Wei-hsing
ps. Anyone plan to attend Wikimania in Taiwan this summer? to learn
from the
MediaWiki or WikiMedia? (I know Vincent is, right?)
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