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    <title>Applications</title>
    <author>Emmanuel Hugonnet</author>
    <author>Aurore Allibe</author>
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    <title>Applications</title>
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    <section name="Applications">
      <p>There are many players in the collaborative market, who can be broken down into 7 categories:</p>
      <ul>   
        <li>The majors such as Microsoft (Sharepoint), IBM (Quick’R), or Oracle (Collaboration suite),</li>
        <li>The portals such as Plumtree or Vignette,</li>        
        <li>The collaborative “bricks” associated with a EDM, such as Documentum’s eRoom or Livelink, or ERP such as Netweaver from SAP.</li>        
        <li>Integrated Opensource such as Afresco, Exo, Jahia or Silverpeas</li>        
        <li>Hosted Saas (software as a service) such as Google or Yahoo</li>        
        <li>Open source specialists (best of breed) : shared diaries, wikis, blogs and search engines</li>        
        <li>All the rest, based on or around groupware, such as Lotus Notes, Exchange, or Groupwise or even WCM (Web Content Management). </li>       
      </ul>
      <p>According to our assessment, only the first 5 categories are likely to realistically evolve into collaborative platforms worthy of the name. Most of these platforms can be permanently installed or made available in ASP mode.
      </p> 
      <p>
        The free SaaS model has confidentiality problems concerning the exchange of information and cannot be considered as part of an industrial model.
      </p> 
      <p>
        Ownership is limited  for this type of collaborative software, to buying a license or distribution rights. This market typically involves the open source community and often means paying for support and maintenance.
      </p> 
      <p>
        Software editors have to be financially inventive to turn their investment into profit.
        For example: a free beta version, a licensed stabilised version, advertising banners with free versions or a monthly rent in ASP mode.
      </p> 
      <p>
        Aside from the free SaaS versions financed by advertising, the cost of owning a limited monthly license can range from a minimum of 2-5€ up to a maximum of 50-80€.
      </p> 
      <p>
        We believe the most viable solutions include:   
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li><strong>Intuitive</strong> where little or no training is needed</li>
        <li><strong>Coherent and Integrated</strong> rather than the Open-source brick-assembly model, which uses non-homogeneous ergonomic and sets up a distinct authentication process making search engines inefficient</li>
        <li><strong>Application oriented</strong>: allowing new applications to be added in a "mix" </li>
        <li><strong>Flexible and upgradable</strong> allowing users to deploy their tools one after the other, according to their need and use</li>
        <li><strong>Inter-Changeable and Inter-Operable</strong> with the type of information storage used and in the respect of the market standards (XML, JSR, REST, etc.)</li>
      </ul>
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