SharePoint: Dinged by ZDNet
March 22, 2009
The “new” Ziff Davis is very different from the one owned by Bill Ziff for whom I worked. The print empire is history. What’s left is a shadow of the former empire. Over the years, zippy writing has been making a bit of a come back. A good example is “SharePoint and Enterprise 2.0: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” by Dion Hinchcliffe here.
The premise is that organizations have more than email and content management systems as content enablers. He asserted:
…when it comes to Enterprise 2.0 in particular — and you can read my most detailed explanation of exactly what the concepts of Enterprise 2.0 are here — the software solution that most organizations seem to reach for today in an almost knee-jerk reaction is Microsoft SharePoint.
Sounds good. It should. Consultants, mavens, pundits, and guruettes have been singing the SharePoint song in harmony for a couple of years. He noted that SharePoint is gaining market share. He isolated some issues that tag along with SharePoint. The one that resonated with me was the cost of SharePoint, but I will leave it to you to read Mr. Hinchcliffe’s analysis.
For me, the interesting part of his write up was the willingness to look at SharePoint and identify its weaknesses. I have stopped yapping about this topic. I am too old and lack the energy to counter the marketing baloney that is generated to make SharePoint the MS DOS of the future.
Just wait until a happy SharePoint customers tries to hook in the roadmapped Fast ESP search system. Life will become even better for SharePoint consultants than it is now.
Stephen Arnold, March 22, 2009
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