Often its hard to control when you have multiple versions of the same document to choose. You might be confused over the fact whether you are using the an updated version or if there is any revision you have missed out to include. These problems can be over come by synchronizing and validating the revision control (aka version control or source control) for various process. Revision control is an aspect of documentation control in which the changes in a document are identified by increasing an associated number or letter code, called revision level, or simply revision.  It is a practice that helps to track and acquire control over changes in a project's source code. The revision control software is used by the developers to manage documentation and configuration files including the source code. Revision control can be employed on various types of information record.  Let's take an example, if an initial set of files is revision 1, after the first change is made, the resulting set is revision 2 and so on. The revisions are associated with a timestamp and the person making the change. We have sorted out a list of top 10 revision control software, let's take a look.

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The Portals are designed to offer your employees, partners and customers a single point of access to your organization's data, knowledge and services using a simple and self-explanatory interface. The open source standard compliant portal servers offers Content Management capabilities integrated with groupware that enable the users to create site for Internet, Extranet and Intranet that can be directly accessed through their browser.  The open source portal project require relatively lesser expenses and offers wider ambit of development. There are a number of Java portal software, but not all are efficient enough to meet the growing needs. To overcome this we researched extensively to line up top 5 Java portal software.

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After our reviews of the two widely used open source groupware Open Xchange and eGroupware, we were out to explore the some of the top open source groupware. As we came across These free software are feature-rich and have become alternatives for expensive collaborative applications. When dealing with groupware its important to discuss that these are extensive collection of different types of software running on different platform. So the type of groupware you or your organization needs to use will depend on the task and functions you want the groupware to perform. Let's take a look at the top 3 open source groupware.

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With companies looking to automate processes and minimize the redundancies, collaborative software products have emerged in big way. We have already done with Free Open Source Groupware eGroupWare () and now searching for more productive and comprehensive groupware that are more budget-friendly. Microsoft has the Microsoft Exchange Server with extensive features,  but this may not be the choice for those with budget-constraints. Moving to the open source groupware we came across Open Xchange. It seems a Microsoft Exchange Server replacement providing most of its features. Open-Xchange software is a messaging and collaboration solution that integrates common free software packages, open standards and web services. It offers several collaborative functions like e-mail, calendaring, contacts and task management. In addition,  it is loaded with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing. Open-Xchange provides turnkey solutions for small and medium sized companies.
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EGroupWare is a free open source groupware or collaborative software designed for small businesses and enterprises. It is a joint effort by a group of active volunteers. The eGroupWare community comprises developers, doc-wirters, artists and any other kind of opensource supportive people. Primarily, it enables the businesses to manage contacts, appointments, projects, to-do-list and other applications.  It is a groupware server with an web based interface that allows access to data from any platform across the world. EGroupaWare offers a wide range of synchronization protocols with different clients. It is a lightweight workgroup support systems and can be integrated with an existing email setup. Let's have an indiscriminate and exhaustive idea about the applications offered by the groupware.

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The wiki software has been one of the outstanding technologies developed in the last decade. It is  essentially a collaborative software that runs any wiki system. The software allows the users to search, read, add and edit content using a common web browser. This improves the content of the wiki. It is an application server that runs on one or more web servers. The original content is stored in a file system and the modified content is stored in the relational database management system. With this web-based application any user is capable to create a comprehensive knowledge base or an interactive website for ny personal, corporate or social platform. It allows the knowledge to be shared with the user's community. Here's my list of top 10 wiki software for you.

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I am evaluating different Groupware packages (like Microsoft Exchange) for Linux. Can you please give some recommendations? So far I have come across Scalix, eGroupware, Open-XChange and The Horde project. Have you used any of them for business?

The EGS team announced the first candidate release of EGS 1.0. Enterprise Groupware System which provides businesses with an internal Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) accounting solution. It is under GPL license.

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