[Techtalk] Opinions on Intranet / Groupware / Forum software

[Dan Richter]

> just looking for suggestions along the lines of 'Xyz is good' 

Plone is good.   :-)

I've installed and used Plone briefly, and I found it easy to install, 
easy to use and quite full-featured. It also has support for 
internationalization.

Most importantly, it avoids the open-source pitfall of obscure commands. 
Note that I'm not saying that obscure commands are always a problem 
(Unix commands are pretty obscure but I can't see how they could be 
otherwise), but they are often a problem. I think many open-source 
programmers assume that everyone will know as much about their software 
as they do, and they write the interface accordingly.

-- 
   Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies
   all problems.
        - Ellis Peters, in _Brother Cadfael's Penance_