Managing Sharing of a Knowledge Database

Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 4, 2013 at 09:00 PM

Correct - they disappointed many Kerio Workspace beta testers (myself included) by suddenly announcing SamePage while at the same time withdrawing the Workspace product. They did explain the strategy behind this (SamePage is built on technology that is substantially more scalable; Workspace is something of a dead end, apparently), but it still left a bad taste in the mouth. Not least because they had no intention of releasing SamePage as a downloadable application; they were determined to run it as a service.

Having said that, we still run Workspace internally, with Kerio’s blessing, and it’s still occasionally updated. SamePage is an ambitious project, and I would be surprised if they dropped it just like that; Kerio is long-term player in the software market. But there are no guarantees in the new ultra-fast-moving software world - just look at the furore engendered by Windows 8, or the current outrage over Apple’s revamped iWork suite. Our own business is run on Soonr, a Dropbox-equivalent service optimized for business. So far, it’s been impeccable. Will it always be so? I’d love to think so, but I’m not expecting any guarantees.

On the other hand, SamePage is easy to use. It’s free, too, for up to 10GB of data (which is, despite all you may hear to the contrary, a lot of data!). It’s easy-peasy to sign up. And it works very well - I’ve been running an informal SamePage account for several months now, and it’s a pleasure to use. It’s also easy to print out pages as PDF files. So if it does eventually go tits-up, does it really matter? The wise man preserves copies of data in any case - I don’t keep anything in the Cloud that isn’t also archived chez moi. Including e-mail (collected every hour by our MailStore server - our e-mail archives have already helped us on a couple of potentially embarrassing occasions). It’s really a question of how you ride the wave!