Open Source at Microsoft
Open Source Provider Sees Accelerated Community Growth for .NET-Based Wiki

As organizations adopt wikis for collaboration, customer relations, and knowledge management, the wikis require more features, but traditional ones haven’t kept pace. Most wikis are based on scripting languages with limited functionality that make them difficult to integrate. MindTouch has addressed these challenges with Deki Wiki…

The Microsoft Open Source Lab is featuring MindTouch and Deki Wiki in a case study (download PDF). We tried to get a Mono Project mention in the case study, but we were unsuccessful. MindTouch Deki Wiki is, of course, 100% language agnostic; meaning you can extend the application in any programming language you like. However,  the platform is composed of a services layer that’s implemented in C# on .NET or Mono and a presentation layer that’s implemented in PHP.  Why in God’s name are we doing a C#/.NET and PHP  hybrid? This will all become clear very soon. :-)  If you’re a Gardener you probably already know how you’ll soon be benefiting from this architecture in the immediate future. The key point I want to communicate is that Deki Wiki is platform independent and programming language agnostic. MindTouch is committed to this. We’re also committed to making Deki Wiki even easier than it already is to install.

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