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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > ____________ > > > Be a better friend, newshound, and > > > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. 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