I need to find an open source alternative to VSS where people will share things like Excel sheets,PPT etc. It will be used by extremely non technical people on windows, so I have ruled out SVN,CVS,GIT etc. I need simple checkin and checkout system for stuff like Excel sheets. Can people suggest something from open source??
Do you need the vss locking facility where if one person has a file checked out then other people are prevented from editing the file?
If you do then be aware that nearly all source control systems like cvs, svn, git etc. allow multiple users to edit the files, and merge the changes later, which will be a problem for Excel sheets
If you don't then simple file sharing systems like google docs or dropbox might suit.
Update
The Share Workbook option in the Tools menu suggests a way of multiple users editing the same document