SharePoint Trojan Horsed
March 26, 2009
The article “Where Worlds Collide – and Then There’s SharePoint” her by Oliver Marks gave me a view of SharePoint I had not previously considered. Here is the passage that I found notable:
SharePoint is often Trojan horsed in ‘free’ with other Microsoft products and can be used as a shared drive document repository by end users with no financial impact. The vaunted collaboration components in the current iteration are rudimentary, and a partner ecosphere has grown up to essentially use SharePoint as a database foundation. Going forward SharePoint is everywhere, and as future iterations of a cloud oriented Microsoft Office hook into the next iterations of SharePoint, it seems likely an extensive new walled garden will emerge. How and if this Microsoft ecosphere will allow interoperability with the open source world is a loaded question.
I have highlighted the hook that snagged me. SharePoint is often a bargain. If Microsoft tosses in more robust search, then the magnetic pull of SharePoint gets stronger. I quite like the phrase “Trojan horsed”’
Stephen Arnold, March 26, 2009
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