Cracking Open the SharePoint Fortress 275
dreemteem writes with this excerpt from ComputerWorld UK:"SharePoint is a brilliant success, for a couple of reasons. In a way, it's Microsoft's answer to GNU/Linux: cheap and simple enough for departments to install without needing to ask permission, it has proliferated almost unnoticed through enterprises to such an extent that last year SharePoint Sales were $1.3 billion. But as well as being one of Microsoft's few new billion-dollar hits, it has one other key characteristic, hinted at in the Wikipedia entry above: it offers an effortless way for people to put content into the system, but makes it very hard to get it out because of its proprietary lock-in. This makes it a very real threat to open source. For example, all of the gains made in the field of open document standards — notably with ODF — are nullified if a company's content is trapped inside SharePoint." The article offers a slice of hope for getting around that, though, in the form of a new API for Google Sites which can slurp the data back out.
Re:Just wondering... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:bah, sharepoint. (Score:5, Funny)
Me neither, but I kinda like the way SharePoint spits random pages in Italian sometimes, it's like I'm a member of the Cosa Nostra or something :D
Re:This is great news if (Score:1, Funny)
Re:This is great news if (Score:3, Funny)
Isn't the Data Liberation group the same group that kidnapped Patty Hearst?
Data wants to be free! People? Not so much.
Re:bah, sharepoint. (Score:3, Funny)
So we spent more money on an excellent 3rd Party search engine.
They'll be sending us all on expensive FrontPage courses next... On wait, they did that already. I got a certificate btw. I can now program web sites. I can even write forms
Re:Micro Google Lockin? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:bah, sharepoint. (Score:3, Funny)
it's my job to interface the pile of mess with other COTS products by building convoluted ETL processes
Oh man, I feel for you, I really do.