Is there software that can do what Google Docs does for document collaboration?

[EvilYoda]

So I've seen O3Spaces, but I haven't tried it out yet. My problem is that the company designs training curriculum and documents have to pass through many hands for editing, error-checking, CI, proper voicing, etc...this results in, usually, 3-5 different copies of the article. This might not all happen at the same time, but I'd like to avoid the multiple copies along with possibly some better implementation of what's been changed and adding comments (outside of the existing Office tools).

Google Docs seems to do this wonderfully, but I'm pretty sure that the president and vice president would be hesitant to use "outside" software. I know that Google sells their own search server boxes, but I don't think that does what I'm looking for.

If you understood anything I just said and you have a suggestion, I'd love to hear it.

TIA.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Office Sharepoint Services can serve documents, handle versioning, check in/out, comments, workflows, etc...if the bosses are looking for a more "enterprise" solution.

 

[EvilYoda]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
Office Sharepoint Services can serve documents, handle versioning, check in/out, comments, workflows, etc...if the bosses are looking for a more "enterprise" solution.

Yeah, I know that's available - does it require someone to be proficient with the program in case errors arise? O3Space I think is supposed to be the open source version of Sharepoint. I'll look into a little more...I'm trying to find a good demo/video of a collaboration in progress since it's hard to explain this stuff to the high ups.

 

[Gooberlx2]

The problem with O3Spaces is that the free version only allows for groups/teams of 10 users, has other limited functionality and there's no support outside of forums. I dunno how the enterprise versions compare with WSS/OSS...if there's total feature parity or what. I know that I can implement some tricky regulation compliance for medical record use with OSS (code 21cfr part 11, for example).

I think that, as with any administrative software in a production environment, there's going to be need for someone who is somewhat proficient and can troubleshoot when problems arise. This would be the case with O3spaces as well.

 

[EvilYoda]

Hmmm...10 users per document/group isn't too bad. Most of our teams are 4-5 people and we'd usually only bring in 1-3 others for editing/proofing/etc.

I'll look into it a little more this weekend.