Sharepoint v TWiki

How does Sharepoint compare with TWiki?

This question has been asked by many people but Sharepoint has not yet been included om wikimatrix.

The following is a comparison table based on the wikimatrix template.

Feature comparison

General Features	Sharepoint Details	TWiki Details
Version	WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007	TWiki 4.1.2
Last Release	11/13/2007 (official release)	2007-03-03
Author	Microsoft	Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL	http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/default.mspx	twiki.org
Free and Open Source	No	Yes
License	Buy	GPL
Programming Language	Server code (not distributed) is C/C++. Programming interfaces are C#, Visual Basic and anything that supports Web Services.	Perl
Data Storage	Microsoft SQL Server	Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee	Expensive	0
Development status	First release 2001. Next major release in 2003. Latest major release in 2007.	Mature
Intended Audience	Internet communities	Internet communities
System Requirements	Sharepoint Details	TWiki Details
Operating System	Windows Server 2003 or later.	Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access	Yes	No
Webserver	Microsoft IIS.	Almost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0
Other Requirements	Windows based only. Needs IIS.	RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage	Sharepoint Details	TWiki Details
Text Files	No	Yes
MySQL	No	No
PostgreSQL	No	No
Oracle	No	No
SQLite	No	No
BerkeleyDB	No	No
RCS	No	Yes
Other	Microsoft SQL Server + SOAP	RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam	Sharepoint Details	TWiki Details
Page Permissions	Yes... Per Site Permissions Per List Permissions Per List Item Permissions Per Document Permissions Role-based Permissions Digital Signature Support Administrator-defined Audit Policies, Data Gathering and Reporting	Yes... Per site permissions Per web permissions Per topic permissions
ACL	Yes	Yes
Authentication Backends	NTLM, LDAP	Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking	Yes	Plugin
Mail Encryption	Depends on associated mail system	Yes
nofollow	?	Plugin
Blacklist	?	Plugin
CAPTCHA	?	Plugin
Delayed Indexing	?	Plugin
Development/Support	Sharepoint Details	TWiki Details
Commercial Support	Yes	Yes
Preconfigured Hosting	Yes	Yes
Code Repository	Yes	twiki.org
Issue Tracker	Yes	twiki.org
Mailing List	Yes	twiki.org
Support Forum	Yes	twiki.org
IRC Channel	Yes	twiki.org
Common Features	Sharepoint Details	TWiki Details
Preview	Yes	Yes
Minor Changes	Yes, if versioning is activated to support minor versions.	Yes
Change Summary	Yes	Yes
Page History	Yes	Yes
Page Revisions	Unlimited	Unlimited
Revision Diffs	?	Between all
Page Index	Yes	Yes
Special Features	Sharepoint Details	TWiki Details
Unicode Support	Yes	Yes
Right-to-Left Support	Yes	No
Interface Languages	Any language supported by Microsoft Language Packs	13
Email notification	Per list or library, per item or document, user-defined criteria	Yes
Comments	Yes	Threaded
Categories	Yes; by adding a column to a list or document library.	Yes
Namespaces	Yes; sites and site collections	Yes
Page Redirection	Custom configuration with SharePoint Designer	Yes
Conflict Handling	Avoidance; through versioning check-in/check-out	Conflict Resolution
Search	Full Text... Search on specific column and metadata content Search results trimmed by permissions Content may be isolated from search Page parts trimmed according to permission Object-oriented content type definitions Document templating	Full Text... Search all site Search by web Regular expression Google Ajax search
Links	Sharepoint Details	TWiki Details
CamelCase	No	Yes
Freelinks	No	Yes
Backlinks	No	Yes
InterWiki	No	Plugin
SisterWiki	No	Plugin
Image Links	Yes	Yes
Windows Shares	Yes	Yes
Link Content Type	Yes; document libraries may store a link instead of a document. There is a link list type as well.	NA

CERN specific

Functionality	TWiki	SharePoint
Web navigation	To access a web go to the main TWiki site and chose from the menu	You must know the URL of each sharepoint site
Page read access	Public read access is the default	NICE authentication is required. Only the owner can access by default
Page write access	The default is that anyone can write with AFS authentication	The owner canset rights for others
Access control	Read and write access can be set for TWiki user and groups	NICE users and groups can be used for access control
Web Creation	To create a new web one has to make a request to the admin or webcreation group	A new web can be created by each user from webservises

Additional information from Vladimir M. Bathory