[daisy] Daisy vs Confluence, was: howto move content from one Daisy to another?

[Thomas L Roche]

Tom Roche Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:30:48 -0500
>> My group has access to a well-maintained (not by us :-) and
>> performant Daisy install, so we'd like to consolidate our current
>> wikis on it.

Mark Thomas Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:29:06 -0500
> I'd be interested to hear the reasons why you're moving from a
> highly-touted commercial wiki (Confluence) to Daisy.

Part of it is that the folks who run the Daisy instance to which we'll
be migrating have done a very good job for a couple of years now, and
as a result lots of other teams with which we collaborate are already
on that instance. So one reason is just consolidation.

That being said, everyone I know who has used both prefers Daisy to
Confluence. (And that's a lotta folks, since IIUC (and I Could Be Very
Wrong) the main corporate-supported wiki @ IBM (w3ki) is Confluence,
but a large part of Rational is using this Daisy instance, so most
users of the latter also use the former.) Confluence may be easier to
support, since that seems to be one of its major selling points, but
Daisy seems easier to use: particularly, the combination of HTML and
richtext editors excels. (Now, if it was only easier to import from
one Daisy to another :-)