On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:48 PM, James Husum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? > Sharepoint integrates easily with AD and lets you use office apps as if they are web apps ... I don't know how to put it, but at least with the company I'm working with at the moment, that's a big deal (the office integration). Sam > > 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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