Have you tried searching for a 'document management system' rather than a 'knowledgebase'? I would guess sourceforge has several.

Alternatively, could a traditional 'message board' suffice? There are some quite powerful messageboards - you may need the ability for the search engine to 'index' attachments.

Looks like one of those applications that can start off simple, and can quickly get complex - multiple levels of permissioning, archiving etc. Much of the power may need to reside in the search algorithm.

I would estimate a good PHP/MySQL programmer could implement something workable in 2 man months, something better in 6 mm, assuming you are willing to release under GPL so they can build on existing GPL codebase. Cost - depends on where the programmer(s) reside!

Imran Malaysia

Rishi Gangoly wrote:

Hi

This is a proprietory Knowledge Base tool we use at our office.

http://www.softwarepoetry.com/kbnow/

I'm looking for 'Free' (as in Freedom) alternatives. Tried to find something on Freshmeat, but no joy. Anyone knows what something like this would cost to make and where to post such a request?

Prefereably it should work on PHP/MySQL.

I'd be happy to pay for it, license is GPL and upload it to a site for the rest of the world to enjoy it.

Regards

Rishi