Linux Journal: Managing Multiple Cooks (an intranet recipe called Grand Salmar Station)

“…Ah, François, you have returned. Merci. Please pour
for our guests. What if I told you, mes amis, that you could deploy
an intranet and turn it over to your users and let them maintain it
without having to train them? They would not need to know any HTML,
and they would not have to code a single line. Chef Sally has
created just such a package. It’s even better. Grand Salmar Station
will automatically create and maintain all links for you and will
even expire old postings or dated information without you lifting a
finger. Any newly added item will magically appear on the
intranet’s What’s New page to highlight it. Normally, such adding
and deleting requires user intervention and links must be verified
and re-created. No problem with this intranet. It does it all for
you.”

“It is a bulletin board, a flexible news center, an internet
reference list, an office directory and a document management
system, all in one. Best of all, Grand Salmar Station is freely
distributed under the GPL.“

“Grand Salmar Station is written completely in Perl and uses
PostgreSQL as its database. You may recall PostgreSQL from past
visits to the restaurant. Our menu has featured applications based
on this excellent database, so you may already be quite familiar
with it. It is possible that you even have it running as part of
your day-to-day processes. In case you do not, I will give you a
quick introduction. For the others, may I recommend a little brie
while you wait? You will find cooking instructions for the intranet
a little further on.”

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