Software mogul Microsoft already sold over 100 million licenses of their acclaimed web 2.0 Sharepoint platform I read in a article on cio.com.
Although analysts point out that it might not be the best solution on the market, most organizations opt for Sharepoint as it tightly integrates with their Office and Exchange environments. But how 2.0 is sharepoint anyway: the product is not user-friendly, is not platform independent and only recently MS announced that non-MS browsers are now partially compatible with the platform.
I have been speaking to some subject matter experts (SME) about the feasibility of implementing the tool and they were not that positive about the technical capabilities and gauzy licensing policy. When you want to go for the full 2.0 monty, you need to do a lot of customization and other technical mumbo jumbo to get it all working. Programs also tend to take years rather than months. One of the companies I work with, started a Sharepoint track in the summer of 2007 and hopes to have it live by the summer of 2009 - at that moment, they can restart to upgrade it to the 2009 version....
We do a lot of consulting on Enterprise 2.0 and 9 out of 10 of our customers have chosen MOSS 2007 as their target platform... what worries me is that their ambitions will have to be adjusted as a consequence of the technical constraints of the product. What usually starts as an Enterprise Portal program quickly turns out to be just another Knowledge Management (read Document Management) itinerary or revamping of the intranet due to time, technical and budget constraints. So is Sharepoint worth investing in? Dunno but until I hear some positive feedback from the developer communities, I remain sceptic and biased...as always with His Majesty's Solutions.
Although analysts point out that it might not be the best solution on the market, most organizations opt for Sharepoint as it tightly integrates with their Office and Exchange environments. But how 2.0 is sharepoint anyway: the product is not user-friendly, is not platform independent and only recently MS announced that non-MS browsers are now partially compatible with the platform.
I have been speaking to some subject matter experts (SME) about the feasibility of implementing the tool and they were not that positive about the technical capabilities and gauzy licensing policy. When you want to go for the full 2.0 monty, you need to do a lot of customization and other technical mumbo jumbo to get it all working. Programs also tend to take years rather than months. One of the companies I work with, started a Sharepoint track in the summer of 2007 and hopes to have it live by the summer of 2009 - at that moment, they can restart to upgrade it to the 2009 version....
We do a lot of consulting on Enterprise 2.0 and 9 out of 10 of our customers have chosen MOSS 2007 as their target platform... what worries me is that their ambitions will have to be adjusted as a consequence of the technical constraints of the product. What usually starts as an Enterprise Portal program quickly turns out to be just another Knowledge Management (read Document Management) itinerary or revamping of the intranet due to time, technical and budget constraints. So is Sharepoint worth investing in? Dunno but until I hear some positive feedback from the developer communities, I remain sceptic and biased...as always with His Majesty's Solutions.