All Collaborative Work Tools Are Piles of Garbage
So I’ve been looking at a wide variety of collaborative work tools, both for work and personal use. Verdict: they all FAIL.
Sharepoint: Do I even need to explain how terrible Sharepoint is? Does anyone like this application, besides the halfwits in HR? EPIC FAIL.
Groove: Hot garbage. No real shared knowledge support, shitty file synch support, stops working randomly, impossible to configure unless you want to run your own server. FAIL.
One Note: Awesome client, unbelievably crippled when it comes to collaboration. FAIL.
Confluence: Less craptastic, but stupid page / space metaphor makes this application incomprehensible to non-programmers. Lacking in features like centralized file storage, discussions, etc. FAIL.
Central Desktop: Medium-hot shite. Terribly terribly slow, ugly & user unfriendly UI. FAIL.
All this crap almost makes me angry enough to roll my own. Almost. But then I remember that it’s 2008, and software developers have only had 10 YEARS to get this right.
