I see a lot of people bashing Confluence here.. may I ask why? Having used Twiki, DocuWiki, MediaWiki, and now Confluence; it has become my enterprise wiki of choice. If you can get over its J2EE requirements which make for a huge PITA when the time to upgrade to the next version or make it work with other J2EE applications on the same Tomcat instance, it's a pretty productive tool. It gets the job done, its straight-forward to use, and performs quite good. Can I ask why there are a lot of disenchanted Confluence users out there?
Our install of Confluence is dog slow and gives a lot of Internal Server Errors - granted that is probably because whoever set it up has done so badly and on inadequate hardware.
Its WYSIWYG editor annoys me quite a bit, and I find its Markup a bit clunky.
I guess my distaste for Confluence comes mostly from the slowness, which is probably not Confluence's fault. Also, editing pages on my Trac install is so much more pleasant.
