I'm taking part to a discussion on LinkedIn about XWiki's recent inclusion in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace. Basically, the geist of it is whether XWiki software should be seen as "social" software the same way that products such as Jive SBSS or BlueKiwi's offering are.
Here's what I had to say on the topic:
Do you agree?The first thing I'd like to mention is that the "Magic Quadrant for Social Software Solutions in the Workplace" used to be called "Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software" a couple years back (see http://mtstaging.socialtext.net/files/Gartner_MagicQuadrantReport.pdf for an example). So the focus was (and still is) on content creation and sharing.XWiki software is designed for content creation and sharing. The social part comes as a byproduct of content creation. In XWiki, social stems from collaboration, whereas the solutions you're mentioning are mostly positioning themselves as enterprise social networks. I'd say that social is not limited to social networks, the social part can be present under other forms within a company.For instance, you can have a lively discussion about a document in the comments section (such as on http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/MultiExportProposal#comments for instance). There's definitely a social part there as people who are working together on the same document get to interact and bond.In short: the fact that XWiki Enterprise isn't the tool you would to build an enterprise's internal social network doesn't mean it doesn't qualify as social software ;-)