I even disagree about some of the points here. I'm at a customer site now (and you wouldn't believe the location) where we are doing requirements for a SharePoint implementation, and we've put such implementations in over 100 customer locations. We also customize it beyond belief (much further than just doing a simple intranet). I can tell you where it's going to break, and we've built or are building social-type networks on it, for Fortune 1000 companies.
Does it have limitations? Yep. Can you customize it and make it work anyway you want, even look anyway you want? Yep. I can point to several sites that we've done that you wouldn't even recognize it as SharePoint -- and not small sites, but public facing sites. (Don't even get me started on some of the other open source CMS systems out there...) Patrick Patrick Neeman -- speakTECH: Strategize, Design, Deliver Practice Manager, User Experience Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Minihan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:32 PM To: Patrick Neeman; 'Loren Baxter'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IxDA Discuss] Sharepoint I have to agree with Patrick, to a point. I felt a little odd having enjoyed it over the past 2 months or so - I must be an idiot or a bad IxD'er if I *like* Sharepoint. We're using a pretty vanilla out-of-the-box V3.0 ASP-provided space, and for the amount of customization we had to do (none), it's served everyone (10 of us) pretty well, with minimal training (about 10 minutes, for 3 folks) required. The caveats are: I came from a mixed BEA Aqualogic/Lotus Notes enterprise portal environment with 110K users and every single bit of both systems were customized beyond belief (to some great extent, by myself, hopefully for the better). Also, I did quite a lot of research into Sharepoint, WebSphere and Aqualogic last year to determine which would be the best fit for our enterprise portal. I concluded that Sharepoint was really best used as a small-team collaboration space, because all of its nomenclature makes sense when you're talking to about 10 people at a time. I noticed very quickly that Sharepoint's ability to create separate spaces to conduct meetings is pretty much a waste of time and not worth the effort to learn it. We ignored it right after we decided it's easier to do in Outlook/email (again, among 10 of us). I've seen a lot of portals, and agree Sharepoint wouldn't scale (from the user's perspective) beyond a very small group very well. On the other hand, its simple, clean spaces and extremely tight integration with Outlook, Office & Explorer have saved me ungodly hours of work cobbling file servers, web sites and other tools together. Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Neeman Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:43 PM To: Loren Baxter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sharepoint Have any of you actually implemented it more than once? We have a lot of clients that are very happy with it. It's not for everyone, and it does have some limitations, but we've been able to work around some of them, and push it pretty far. Patrick Neeman -- speakTECH: Strategize, Design, Deliver Practice Manager, User Experience Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Loren Baxter Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sharepoint Sharepoint is a disaster. Although I've never tried them, I can almost guarantee that there are far better solutions in the same market. It's unusable, breaks easily, and poorly organized. We've had to come up with some pretty interesting workarounds to accomplish simple versioning and document access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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