Simple - a lot of businesses run Microsoft shops (IIS, MSSQL, etc.), in
addition to their end-user desktop and software platforms, so SharePoint
is a logical extension of that.
I've taken a few SharePoint classes, and frankly I'm not too impressed
by what I saw.
I also don't think SharePoint (or any other "off the shelf" application)
will replace the need for developers, just due to the simple fact that
no application does what everybody wants it to do "straight out of the
box" - there will always be a need for customization in order to
compensate for the natural weaknesses in an application that tries to be
as polyfunctional as possible.
James E. Thomas
Baker Botts L.L.P. Web Developer
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of James Husum
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [houcfug] Re: SharePoint and ColdFusion
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-C
oldFusion-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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