Kablink Teaming FAQ
Teaming FAQ
What is Kablink Teaming?
Kablink Teaming is a team collaboration environment that pushes productivity to the next level. Not only do you have a Relevancy Dashboard of things that are important to you across all your teams, we've also made it easy to discover new connections and interests.
What is the difference between Novell's commercial product Novell Teaming?
The big one is obviously support and ongoing maintenance. Novell has the resources to support any size customer and offers users of Teaming piece of mind.
| Feature | Kablink Teaming |
Novell Teaming |
| Support |
No | Yes |
| Document Converters |
OpenOffice | Oracle Stellent |
| Host Multiple Domains | No | Yes |
| Mirrored Folders (allows existing NFS or CIFS folders) |
No | Yes |
| Ability to install Lucene index remotely |
No | Yes |
| Lucene High Availability | No | Yes |
| Advanced Workflow |
Yes | Yes |
| Anonymous Guest Access |
Yes | Requires Additional Module |
| LDAP Sync |
Yes | Yes |
| Guests can create accounts |
Yes |
Yes |
| Pluggable Extensions |
Yes | Yes |
| Accept Incoming Email to Workspaces and Folders |
Yes | Yes |
| Simple URLs |
Yes | Yes |
| Mobile interface |
Yes | Yes, but not supported |
| Blogs |
Yes | Yes |
| Wikis |
Yes | Yes |
| Included WebDAV server (File Folders) |
Yes | Yes |
| Photo Album | Yes | Yes |
| Discussion Forums | Yes | Yes |
| Tasks |
Yes | Yes |
| Milestones |
Yes | Yes |
| Surveys |
Yes | Yes |
| Team Calendars |
Yes | Yes |
| Web Form Designer | Yes | Yes |
| Workflow Designer | Yes | Yes |
Can I Participate?
Yes! Kablink Teaming is a work-in-progress that can benefit from active community involvement. Regardless of your skill level or time you have to commit to such a project, you can contribute to the Kablink project. We need help developing, documenting, translating, testing, and evangelizing Teaming. We invite you to participate in any manner that you feel comfortable with.
With the release of Teaming 2.0 we also have a new Extension Specification and deployer that allows the platform to be extended in lots of different ways. There are three main forms of extensions that can be written: embedded extensions (tight integration), remote applications (aka Facebook type applications that run in a separate process), and workflow applications that can call custom Java classes for integrating with other systems during state transitions.
Please jump in and help as you can. We appreciate all help.
What operating systems are supported?
All of them:-) The Kablink Teaming client is a browser and we support most of the newer web browsers like:
- IE 6 and 7
- Firefox 2 and 3
- Safari
The Kablink Teaming server is a web application written in Java. Our primary requirement on the server is a JVM that is Java 1.5+ compatiable. We also currently only recommend Tomcat for a web container.
The databases that we recommend are Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server. Some work has been done for Postgres and is available in the SVN trunk but it has not been well tested.
How do I get the open source version of Teaming?
Simple. Start here.
