Wikis at Sun Microsystems: The Ongoing Evolution [ABSTRACT]
Jinfo Blog
7th October 2008
By Scott Brown
Abstract
Since their start as a grassroots collaboration tool inside Sun Microsystems, wikis have come a long way. Scott Brown describes the evolution of wikis inside the enterprise and looks ahead at the role they may play for the company in the future.
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Since their start as a grassroots collaboration tool inside Sun Microsystems, wikis have come a long way. Scott Brown describes the evolution of wikis inside the enterprise and looks ahead at the role they may play for the company in the future.ur Digital Libraries & Research blog.
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The great thing about the launch of wikis.sun.com was that it provided an enterprise-wide wiki platform; there wasn't the need to try to convince a wiki admin to give you a space. The downside was, at least at the time of launch, there wasn't the ability to have a wiki just for employee use. The wiki had to be external-facing.
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