On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:50:54AM -0600, EP wrote:
> 
>    I've been looking for a good way to handle our company's
>    documentation.  I've looked at and used mediawiki, plone, and
>    mambo/joomla but nothing seems to do what I think it needs to do.
>    This is what I need:
>    1. We sell our own software so we need to be able to publish user
>    manuals.
>    2. We need to document our own company procedures, policies, etc.
>    3. We need revision control so if someone wipes out a document we know
>    what we need to fix.
>    4. We need version control so we know what version of our document our
>    clients or employees are using (Pointing everyone at the web may
>    mitigate this need).
>    5. We need access control.  Obviously everyone should not have access
>    to everything.
>    6. Easy enough to create/edit/delete/view a document so that our
>    non-technical users and employees can handle it.
>    These are additional features that should be available:
>    1. Use Word or OpenOffice and import the documents into the document
>    tool
>    2. Should be able to get a PDF version of the same document on the fly
>    (i.e. I don't want to store two copies of each document)
>    3. Client access portal so we know who's accessing our documents
>    This seems reasonable to me so maybe I'm looking in the wrong places
>    or maybe I'm too picky.

I really like wiki's for this type of thing.  I havn't used it yet, but
I think dokuwiki may meet your needs.

Dan