I was tasked to ask about creating an internal Wiki for the research group I work for at the US Geological Survey. I sent an email to a handful of folks my boss thought would be a good place to start. The response I got was:
In the recent past when someone was wanting to set up a website for information exchange, we were told by our managers to point them to Lotus, using Sametime etc. We were told it was a very robust (and expensive) program and was purchased specifically for scientists and other groups to share information. Have you thought about using this mechanism?So, instead of using, say, MediaWiki on a Linux box basically for free, I'm expected to use our "military grade" Lotus Notes. To be fair, I logged into Lotus Notes (and changed my password which expired a couple months ago - I use the web client which uses a different password) and tried to explore how to share information. On the Getting Started window, there was a friendly enough link "Learn more about using Notes" which takes you to a missing page on IBM's website.
Beware the moniker "military grade" because, while it may imply a certain robustness, it also implies "very expensive and difficult to use".
