Re: [xwiki-users] [request] Comparing XWiki to other solutions

Hi I should explain what i have in mind regarding competition evaluation by the community. I talk about competition, because even in the OpenSource world, we can talk about competition, because after all, XWiki intends to be the best wiki, no ? This project should be organized as following : Step 1 : identify - identify the real competition (what are the real choices users have when they want to build an intranet, a community, or so on, and these choices are not only in the OpenSource world !) - identify the real user need when they balance XWiki against a competitor Step 2 : evaluate - evaluate the strength and weaknesses of XWiki vs the competition, at the solution level and the feature level (a qualitative evaluation, not quantitative, there is already lots of quantitative studies such as wikimatrix, we need more smart evaluation) - evaluate the objective and subjective differences of XWiki, with user feedbacks, try to do the same with biggest competitors - list the competitive advantages of XWiki and each competitor (quite same question, as previous, but with another angle) Step 3 : analyse - for each feature, provide a comparison study (probably the biggest and most difficult work here) - identify critical things missing in XWiki - analyze the tendencies of the market (grab infos about others roadmaps, announcements, etc.) - balance the result vs. user real needs Step 4 : publish - at the end, publish in the community a white paper (precise content to be defined, but with the material defined here), the idea is to have a synthetic document to help users evaluate xwiki against others, and to see if XWiki fits their needs (it is better to prevent any unsatisfaction) - and of course feed XWiki community with this info in the roadmap process (easier to set up priorities, and input information for feature design) This is quite a medium term work (should take a couple of month), but it will -i think- really benefit the dev community, and also the attractiveness of xwiki.org website. Anything here will be done in the open. If some community member provides sensible info, we will of course care about confidentiality. Best Gregory Le 4 janv. 2011 à 23:11, Sergiu Dumitriu a écrit :