| General Features | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
Version |
does not apply | 4.1 |
does not apply |
Last Release Date |
does not apply | February 2009 |
does not apply |
Author |
Central Desktop |
eTouch Systems |
Socialtext |
URL |
www.centraldesktop.com |
www.etouch.net |
www.socialtext.com |
Free and Open Source |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
License |
does not apply | Commercial |
does not apply |
Programming Language |
does not apply | Java |
does not apply |
Data Storage |
does not apply | Files, DB |
does not apply |
License Cost/ Fee |
Free Version Available (Pay versions start at $25/month) |
Pls check www.etouch.net |
www.socialtext.com |
Development status |
does not apply | Mature |
does not apply |
Intended Audience |
Small-Medium Sized Businesses |
Anyone who intends to use the Web for a collaborative initiatives.Geared for Enterprise Users. |
Businesses, individuals & developers |
| Hosting Features | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
Storage Quota |
from 25MB and up |
 None |
Starts at 1GB & scales to unlimited storage |
Bandwidth Quota |
unlimited |
 None |
Unlimited |
Other Limits |
|
User-based |
Unlimited wiki workspaces & pages |
Topic Restrictions |
|
No pornography |
 None |
Corporate Branding |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Own Domain |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Ads allowed |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
| System Requirements | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
Operating System |
does not apply | Windows/Linux/Solaris |
does not apply |
Root Access |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
Webserver |
does not apply | Bundled with Tomcat. Can run on any J2EE app server(OAS,JBOSS,WebLogic,WebSphere etc). Can be proxied via webserver of choice(Apache,IIS etc) |
does not apply |
Other Requirements |
does not apply | JDK1.5 |
does not apply |
| Datastorage | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
Text Files |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
MySQL |
does not apply |  Yes |
does not apply |
PostgreSQL |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
Oracle |
does not apply |  Yes |
does not apply |
SQLite |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
BerkeleyDB |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
RCS |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
Other |
does not apply | |
does not apply |
| Security/Anti-Spam | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
Page Permissions |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ACL |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Authentication Backends |
does not apply | Database,LDAP (AD, OID,Novell,Sun etc), SSO (Siteminder,WebSeal, OracleSSO etc) |
does not apply |
Host Blocking |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
Mail Encryption |
|
 No |
 Optional |
nofollow |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
Blacklist |
|
 No |
 Yes |
CAPTCHA |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
Delayed Indexing |
|
 Yes |
 Optional |
| Development/Support | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
Commercial Support |
 Yes, 2 listed |
 Yes, 2 listed |
 Yes, 5 listed |
Preconfigured Hosting |
does not apply |  Yes |
does not apply |
Code Repository |
does not apply | Source Code is not included |
does not apply |
Issue Tracker |
|
support.etouch.net |
www.socialtext.net |
Mailing List |
|
samepage-support@etouch.net |
www.socialtext.net |
Support Forum |
forum.centraldesktop.com |
forums.etouch.net |
www.socialtext.net |
IRC Channel |
|
Not available currently |
#socialtext |
| Common Features | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
Preview |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Minor Changes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
Change Summary |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Page History |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Page Index |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Plugin System |
|
 Yes |
|
| Special Features | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
Unicode Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Right-to-Left Support |
|
 Yes |
 Optional |
Interface Languages |
 Not localized |
 5 languages German, English, French, Hungarian, Polish |
|
Email notification |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Comments |
Flat |
Threaded |
Flat |
Categories |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Namespaces |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Page Redirection |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Conflict Detection |
Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Wiki Farming |
does not apply |  Yes |
does not apply |
Structured Data |
|
 Patch |
|
| Links | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
CamelCase |
 Optional |
 No |
 Optional |
Freelinks |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Backlinks |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
InterWiki |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
SisterWiki |
 Yes |
 No |
 Optional |
Image Links |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Windows Shares |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Page Redirects |
|
 Yes |
|
| Syntax Features | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
HTML Tags |
Some |
 Optional |
All |
Math formulas |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
Tables |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
CREOLE support |
|
 No |
 Optional |
Markdown Support |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
Textile Support |
 No |
 Yes |
 Optional |
BBCode Support |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
Emoticon Images |
 No |
 Yes |
 Optional |
Syntax Highlighting |
 Yes |
 No |
 Optional |
Footnotes |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
Quoting |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Internal Comments |
 Yes |
 No |
 Optional |
Custom styles |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
FAQ Tags |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
Scripting |
html/css/templating |
Direct scripting prohibited for security reasons.Can be done via plugins, custom js files. |
Javascript |
Content Includes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Feed Aggregation |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Usability | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
Section Editing |
 Yes |
 Patch |
 Optional |
Page Templates |
|
 Yes |
|
Double-Click Edit |
 Optional |
 No |
 Yes |
Toolbar |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
WYSIWYG Editing |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Access Keys |
|
 Yes |
 Yes |
Auto Signature |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
| Statistics | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
Recent Changes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Wanted Pages |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Orphaned Pages |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Most/Least Popular |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Recent Visitors |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
Analysis |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Optional |
| Output | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
HTML |
HTML 4 |
HTML 4 |
HTML 4 |
CSS Stylesheets |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Printer Friendly |
Print View |
Print View |
Print View |
Mobile Friendly |
|
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|
Themes & Skins |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
RSS Feeds |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ATOM Feeds |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Abbreviations |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Auto-TOC |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Raw Export |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
HTML Export |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
XML export |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
PDF Export |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Media and Files | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
File Attachments |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Media Revisions |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Embedded Flash |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Embedded Video |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Image Editing |
 No |
 Yes |
 Optional |
SVG Editing |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
MindMap Editing |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
Media Search |
Contents |
Contents |
Contents |
| Extras | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
Calendar |
|
 Plugin |
|
Image Galleries |
|
 Yes |
|
Forums |
|
 Yes |
|
Blogs |
|
 Yes |
|
Ticket System |
|
|
|
| Syntax Examples | CentralDesktop  | SamePage  | Socialtext  |
Internal Link |
 WikiPage |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
 [link] |
External Link |
 http://www.example.com |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
 http://www.example.com |
Headlines |
 <h1>headline1</h1>
<h2>headline1</h2> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
 ^ Headline |
Bold Format |
 <b>text</b> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
 *bold* |
Italics Format |
 <i>text</i> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
 _italics_ |
Underline Format |
 <u>text</u> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
|
Monospace Format |
 <pre>text</pre> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
 .pre
monospace
.pre |
Strikethrough Format |
 <strike>text</strike> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
 --strikethrough-- |
Superscript Format |
 <sup>superscript</sup> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
|
Subscript Format |
 <sub>subscript</sub> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
|
Images |
 <img src="image.gif" /> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
 http://www.example.com/path/to/image.jpg |
Aligning Text |
 <span align="right">text</span> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
|
Text Indentation |
 |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
 > indented |
Bulleted Lists |
 <ul>
<li>test</li>
</ul> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
 * bullet item
** bulletted subitem |
Numbered Lists |
 <ol>
<li>test</li>
</ol> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
 # numbered item
## numbered subitem |
Definition Lists |
|
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
 Term
> definition |
Horizontal Rule |
 <hr> |
 Through WYSIWYG Editor. No syntax required. |
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| Last updated | 2008-01-18 | 2009-03-17 | 2008-10-24 |
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