Kablink press release goes kerplunk

22nd Jul, 2008

Kablink press release goes kerplunk

I don’t know why this rankled me so much. Maybe I should just write it off as somebody’s PR firm getting a little too aggressive. But check out this claim made in an announcement yesterday by open source collaboration software company Kablink (formerly ICEcore):

“The only open source collaboration solution to offer
workflow” (Source)

I know. I had to read it twice.

Maybe Kablink defines “open source” or “collaboration” or “workflow” differently than I do. But solutions like Plone, Drupal, and Alfresco have had workflow of some kind for quite a while. It isn’t like there’s just one other open source collaboration offering out there with workflow, there are several. I’m not sure how Kablink thought they’d get this one past anyone. Maybe they’ll comment here to attempt to justify their claim.

Posted by: jpotts

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I am the Community Manager for Kablink and would like to describe what it is we feel we do uniquely. First off, try the software so that you understand the differences between Kablink and the other products you mentioned. I think we are unique in our offering. We have team software that integrates lots of social networking features AND allows users to create workflows for the business objects in the system via a user friendly UI. Administrators don’t have to define workflows, users get to. Of course other products integrate workflow, but I haven’t seen any that have the built in team and collaboration feature set Kablink does that also offers an integrated user friendly UI. Again, I suggest giving it a try.

Hope this helps.

By: Brent McConnell on July 22nd, 2008
at 11:41 pm