I was tasked at the end of January with setting up "something to share files and contact lists".

I ended up installing Tikiwiki since it can do that and far more.  (Why bother setting up 20 packages and then trying to get them all to play nice together?)

I am unclear on what you mean by: "Best not to be LAMP, if other choices are available."

Since you want Linux, the L isn't the issue: which letter do you have a problem with?

Tikiwiki is very much a Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP application, though you can use other databases if you have a problem with Mysql for some reason.  I don't know why you wouldn't want Apache, and the twin-P's of Perl and PHP are an almost certainty for any package...

At any rate, Tikiwiki comes with Forums (and 'Articles' and 'Blogs') as well as the usual wiki, and things like File or Image Galleries (the main difference being File Galleries don't show you previes) and a ton of other features.

The real selling point here is the very nice permissions system: various groups can have different permissions (¨Employees" can see secret internal stuff, "Clients" can only see
their own secret stuff, not stuff from other clients, etc).

If you can code, Tikiwiki is beautiful: the template system (with individual themes being able to 'override' standard templates) is very flexible.  If you want to see what it can do, check out the various tikiwiki.org sites.  Tikiwiki developers "eat their own dogfood" and use Tiki for everything except CVS and mailing lists (still on Sourceforge).

Hi,

SamePage works on LinuX and is written entirely in Java -- JSP and Servlets.

It supports granular security controls at the project and page level and it's search is also 'ACL-aware'

Cheers,

SamePage team