Greetings,

So what's the big push with Sharepoint? Seems like a lot of companies are
adopting it recently. Why not a CF solution like FarCry?

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Aaron Rouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Yeah, SharePoint is not going to go away and eventually will mature into a
> product that replaces a lot of the stuff that developers were always needed
> for.  SharePoint was sold to us as Lotus Notes on steroids, maybe because a
> lot of our group are ex-Lotus Notes programmers.  None of those ex-Lotus
> people though seem to be overly impressed with it so far.
>
> I think what will be interesting to see in the coming years is what
> competing products come out to compete with SharePoint.  I know of at least
> one company in its infant stage right now that was started solely to do that
> and by ex-MS employees who got aggravated with all the issues they were
> facing from trying to support WSS.
>
> I do not know how complex your Lotus Notes applications are but would be
> curious to hear if you ultimately end up using the built in WFF or have to
> go to a third party workflow tool.  The two applications I had demo'd to me
> that were SharePoint applications both used third party workflow tools
> because they found the built in ones just were not going to cut it for
> them.  One of those applications was a pretty hefty application, the other I
> would not rate as big, maybe medium.
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Seth Bienek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > This is a great discussion.
> >
> > We're deploying Sharepoint where I work, in part to replace much of the
> > functionality in Lotus Notes
> > (workflows, etc), so this will probably come up for us at some point.
> >
> > Interestingly, about a month ago Ben Forta posted a request for features
> > regarding built-in
> > SharePoint integration with ColdFusion:
> >
> > http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/3/18/What-Would-You-Want-From-ColdFusion-Microsoft-SharePoi
> > nt-Integration<http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/3/18/What-Would-You-Want-From-ColdFusion-Microsoft-SharePoint-Integration>
> >
> > I don't think SharePoint is going away any time soon, it's good to see
> > the folks at Adobe taking the
> > bull by the horns (pardon the veiled Centaur reference).
> >
> > Seth
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of Aqil Mansuri
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:05 AM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: [houcfug] Re: SharePoint and ColdFusion
> > >
> > >
> > > We use sharepoint at my company.  We are using page viewer webparts
> > and displaying coldfusion
> > > applications in the webparts.  We use integrated security in cf so we
> > pass through the
> > > authentication from the iis server.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Sent: 5/1/08 8:55 AM
> > > Subject: [houcfug] Re: SharePoint and ColdFusion
> > >
> > >
> > > You might want to look into BlueDragon for ASP.net - it's ColdFusion
> > > that can mix ASP.NET code and templates together natively:
> > >
> > > http://www.newatlanta.com/c/products/bluedragon/download/home
> > >
> > > We've been using it for over a year now, and while we are still firmly
> > > in the ColdFusion code area, the potential to use .NET code is a nice
> > > option.
> > >
> > > James E. Thomas
> > > Baker Botts L.L.P. Web Developer
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > > Behalf Of Allan Stilwell
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:34 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: [houcfug] SharePoint and ColdFusion
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Has anyone tried to integrate ColdFusion and SharePoint? If so what
> > did
> > > you integrate, why, were you successful and what were some lessons
> > > learned?
> > >
> > > We stood up a SharePoint instance in our organization and I see a lot
> > of
> > > potential for integration, but I am worried they may not play nice
> > > together. Any inputs or suggestions would be appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> --
> Aaron Rouse
> http://www.happyhacker.com/
> >
>


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