Confluence – enterprise wiki

July 14, 2007 – 7:08 pm

confluence_logo.gif In a corporate work environment a wiki is such a fantastic tool for collaboration. I’ve tried out a lot and none were quite good enough for enterprise use. Then a friend put me onto Confluence. Its easy to setup, backup, upgrade and migrate. I’m a fan now. I went to a talk last week at Atlassian’s offices here in Sydney on how to promote wiki use in your organisation. The basis for the talk was the site wikipatterns.com. Their new office is very nice and they provided beer and pizza; quality pizza and my favorite beer, Stella Artois. awesome!

confluence-model.gifI even use an instance of confluence for my personal stuff; both general and career related. The main instance I run on my laptop. Every so often i back it up (easy, just a couple of clicks and save a zip file to a usb memory stick) and take it home to restore onto Confluence instances i have running there. I have 3 instances installed; on OSX, Solaris and Windows. All running on Tomcat and MySQL.

Highly unlikely that all of them could be lost. Saaaaaafe.

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