fwiw, the shop i was referring to was all-MS infrastructure (very limited Linux or other *NIX for some development work). although SharePoint does make it easy to deliver the same platform to each user, the basic ability to copy and paste from other Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.) directly into SharePoint's WYSIWYG editor was very buggy and any graphics or charts would have to each be saved to a separate file, then re-imported.
add in very intermittently-working functions (font size, font choice, color, alignment, style) in the editor and it becomes almost useless. we ended up having to make desired changes within Word or other source programs, then have interns save out the graphics, and just copy and paste text into our SharePoint wiki sites, then re-import the graphics. Since we were trying to move everything into the wiki and get away from source maintenance elsewhere, the bad performance of SharePoint's editor was a major PITA for us. i *wish* the SharePoint WYSIWIG editor worked as well as other Microsoft Office products! There were a lot of issues with their site design tools as well, in 2003 and 2007 (I had limited exposure to 2010). ---p, just my .02 On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Tom Limoncelli <t...@whatexit.org> wrote: > Modern versions of Twiki have WYSIWYG editors. I'm not sure about > drag-and-drop. A call to their pre-sales people would answer those > questions. Commercial support might calm the fears of the executives. > > Do the executives actually use the Twiki or are their concerns about > other users not being as productive as they could be? > > To be honest, for all the negative things I hear about Sharepoint, I > also hear that if you are a 100% MS shop it is awesome for the users > that are used to the walled garden that MS mades. Nothing wrong with > that, IMHO. If you are concerned with having to maintain it, I'm told > that MS's hosted version of Sharepoint is pretty reasonable. One > thing I like about hosted solutions is that it makes executives really > really see the cost of something. They literally do not know what > value to put on the work that you do. Suddenly being told that a > hosted solution is $xx/month per user makes them realize what a > bargain in-house IT is. (I'm also told "Microsoft's Office 365 is > basically hosted Sharepoint".) > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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