Our marketing dept recently rolled-out a Yammer domain to try as an internal intranet / chat room / listserv / wiki / newsgroup, and so far I kind of like it. It's certainly not best-of-breed at any of those things, and big companies with well-staffed IT and HR departments (or some enthusiastic engineers with a few spare Limux servers) could probably do much better with an appropriate selection of freeware. However, if you're in a small, but distributed, hardware-constrained environment, and/or your target audience find Facebook more intuitive than wiki markup, then Yammer might be worth a look. Especially if the alternative is SharePoint.
Though I'd trade it in a heartbeat for Wildfire and MediaWiki...*sigh*.
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