Progress Software Corporation is an American company that develops software for creating and deploying business applications. Their vision is to propel business forward in a technology-driven world.
ShareFile is a secure content collaboration, file sharing and sync software. It’s designed to handle document workflows for any size team. It has built-in security features to protect files. Progress acquired ShareFile for a purchase price of $875 million.
ShareFile is proprietary software and is not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
1. OpenProject
OpenProject is an open source web-based project management system for location-independent team collaboration. This is an an easy-to-use, feature-rich application for project management and team collaboration. OpenProject is mature software. Development started in 2012.
2. MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a superb wiki package originally written for Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia project. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis. It is designed to handle a large number of users and pages without imposing too rigid a structure or workflow.
There are many other open source wiki software available for Linux.
3. Nextcloud
Nextcloud is a suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services.
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| Alternatives to Progress's Products | |
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 | Chef is an open source systems integration framework and configuration management system. Chef provides a Ruby library and API that can be used to bring the benefits of configuration management to an entire infrastructure. |
| LoadMaster is a fully featured load balancer and application delivery controller (ADC) that supports all the major application workloads with easy-to-use templates. |
| MOVEit is a managed file transfer software product. The software encrypts files and uses file transfer protocols such as FTP(S) or SFTP to transfer data, as well as providing automation services, analytics and failover options. |
| ShareFile is a secure content collaboration, file sharing and sync software. It’s designed to handle document workflows for any size team. It has built-in security features to protect files. |
| Sitefinity is a content management system (CMS) that you use to create, store, manage, and present content on your website. |
 | WS_FTP is a secure FTP client that provides reliable and secure transfer of critical files. WS_FTP consists of an FTP server and an FTP client. |