SharePoint: The Digital Maginot Line
June 19, 2008
Internet News has a must read story about Microsoft SharePoint here. Richard Adhika’s “Search, Social Networking Key in SharePoint” nails the identify crisis that Microsoft faces with this server product. SharePoint is search and social networking, The story casts into sharp relief that SharePoint is a polymorphic product. With millions of users, three flavors of search, and dozens of Certified Gold Partners selling add ins and add ons SharePoint is important to Microsoft.
To me the most interesting statement in the essay is:
Echoing statements by analysts and other vendors, he said the danger is that the millennials working in enterprises will “turn to outside services on the Internet,” which may breach compliance regulations and spur fears about information leaking outside the organization. Corporate IT is “increasingly thinking about how to build an internal social networking platform,” Koenigsbauer said, adding that SharePoint Server 2007 provides native support for wikis (define) and blogs, and lets users push content to mobile devices.
SharePoint, if I interpret Mr. Koenigsbauer’s comments as intended, suggests that SharePoint is a Maginot line, the line of concrete fortifications designed to protect France from Germany. Perhaps SharePoint in its search and collaborative form will work.
Stephen Arnold, June 19, 2008
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