I just saw a presentation on SharePoint. Its basically the concept from Swiki using MS documents as the content instead of HTML. SharePoint also has versioning, workflow, and permissions for documents. Its a little more than that because it has web objects (WEBDAV compliant) that allow you to put together a site. MS Project Central integrates w/ SharePoint to provide project management (calendars and project plans) w/ MS Project 2000. Project managers use MSProject to create plans and team members use a browser to update their information. As is w/ all MS products (in my opinion), they don't sell technology, they market pretty-looking solutions which non-technical computer users can understand and use with moderate training. So, if you want to use SharePoint, you'd better get the latest and greatest from Intel and a RAM upgrade because its just not going to scale. The demo I just saw was dog slow (450mhz server) and there was only one user on the site. (Also in my opinion) Swiki (and Squeak) provides all the technology necessary to create all the functionality of SharePoint and Project Central. I think Swiki would need to have a plugin though. Anyway, that's my two cents. -MB John Hinsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@cc.gatech.edu on 11/07/2001 09:58:26 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [pws] Microsoft SharePoint Team Services Stephan Wessels wrote: > > Has anyone looked seriously at Microsoft SharePoint Team Services? > http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?subid=22&site=10901&x=28&y=11 > > I've been talking to folks a lot about the powerful concepts of the > CoWeb/Swiki and how a Swiki can be adopted for very practical uses. > There has generally always been an enthusiastic response from everyone I > have shown a Swiki. > > Recently, a friend of mine who is very aware of the technologies that > Microsoft has been producing, pointed me to the above web site. > > It looks like some pretty nice technology from an ease-of-use point of > view. I'm unconvinced that it replaces Swikis as a solution. But there > are features it has I would love to see added. The calendar is nice, > for example. > > I'd like to hear from others who may have evaluated this new Microsoft > technology. > Well, I've not evaluated it. For one thing, I can't afford it, for another it looks to be tied to IIS, which is no great shakes as a web server, and to Frontpage, which, even if the frontpageness can be seperated off from IIS (in some instances, it can) imposes further restrictions. And the demonstration stuff chucks up javascript errors and runs very slowly..... To be honest, I doubt if M$ will have 15% of the Internet/Intranet market by 2005. Have you looked at Zope (which is much the same thing as Swiki, but far more developed -- maybe where Swiki will be in 3 years time)? It's free, very fast, and will have a graphical front end within 6 months if it hasn't got it already. Cheers John -- Reputed to be the reason Windows 2000 was nearly a year late, (paid in shares M$Ds needed the cash and kudos) Netproject's Eddie Bleasdale has renewed his challenge to virus writers. The first person to infect his Linux box wins 10,000 pounds. http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT =&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=48211
