On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Jo Rhett <jrh...@netconsonance.com> wrote: > On Sep 26, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > > 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 > > > So, wiki was supposed to be easy, right? > > Every document has its own stylesheet. Every one. Want to change the look of > a section? Edit every page. > > Want to make this text a header and that text computer? Sure, as long as you > don't mind that it resets when someone adds something different to the page. > > Sharepoint takes more hours to maintain the crap that writing it with chalk > on the wall would require, and manually hiring scribes to redo it in each > location, no kidding. > > Apparently everyone has forgotten that Wiki = Easy. Documentation should be > something easy to do, not something so frustrating I avoid it.
None of those things are problems in most shops. You and I have very high standards... so high we forget that what we consider "normal" isn't even on the radar of most shops. Every document has its own style sheet: What's a style sheet? Why wouldn't we have a secretary spend a week making the same style change to every document in the entire repository? Plus, you say "difficult to maintain" but it sounds like "job security" (or "keeps my consulting company engaged forever") to most people. Are these my values? No. But I look at the world very differently than 90% of the world. Maybe I'm a pessimist but I think Dilbert is more of a documentary than a farce. Tom -- Speaking at MacTech Conference 2012. http://mactech.com/conference http://EverythingSysadmin.com -- my blog http://www.TomOnTime.com -- my videos _______________________________________________ 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/
