Nobody/Anonymous - 2006-10-11

The Construction Specifications Institute has implemented more than a half-dozen installations of phpIDIS to support the work of construction industry committees.
Most notably, phpIDIS is supporting the development of the National CAD Standard, version 4.0, with a committee of 200 people from across the country.  The decision to adopt phpIDIS came after a thorough investigation of more than 75 collaboration tools.  The strengths of phpIDIS are:
  + Discussion threads are connected to documents, to channel discussion and avoid a discussion "free for all."
  + Simple interface, with only one level of drill-down.
  + Universality.  Sharepoint cost us three months in development time, because it has stringent system requirements, applets, etc to download.  With phpIDIS, only straight html hits the browser, which means everybody can use it, regardless of OS, Browser, or Admin rights.

The tool has a few minor quirks on installation, that do not generally affect users.  Its current version is also a little lax on security, ocassionally passing unencrypted passwords via POST and in the URL.  So don't use it to store any State secrets.

In all, I am very happy with the performance of the program.  I am happy to show off one of the several implementations if you have questions.

-Aaron Titus
Contact Information:
http://www.csinet.org/s_csi/sec.asp?TRACKID=&CID=1531&DID=6427