I'm working on SharePoint projects - as a strategic advisor, apart from having been with Drupal for some years now.
Drupal is indeed an excellent collaboration tool, community tool, etc. However, Drupal does not do the out-of-the-box integration with Office, that the new MOSS2007 will do. It is not just sharing a user base. It is working in the groups - posting, commenting, checking in and out, having tasks in your outlook, as well as notes and events, etc etc.
What Microsoft has set out to do, is to let the Office Desktop be the place from which you work much of the time - and not the browser. This is the way most office workers prefer it.
Microsoft is not screwing this up, and it is not just hype. It is the third iteration mind you! There is a LARGER plan in this. They are also integrating the ERP systems (Dynamics - formerly known as Navision and Axapta) - which means even more vendor lock in, but also a better workplace for information workers, as they call them.
I posted about the MS and SEX thing here almost a year ago. I also posted about SharePoint here in April 2004, when there was a big "roadshow" in Denmark that I attended.
I'm working on SharePoint projects - as a strategic advisor, apart from having been with Drupal for some years now.
Drupal is indeed an excellent collaboration tool, community tool, etc. However, Drupal does not do the out-of-the-box integration with Office, that the new MOSS2007 will do. It is not just sharing a user base. It is working in the groups - posting, commenting, checking in and out, having tasks in your outlook, as well as notes and events, etc etc.
What Microsoft has set out to do, is to let the Office Desktop be the place from which you work much of the time - and not the browser. This is the way most office workers prefer it.
Microsoft is not screwing this up, and it is not just hype. It is the third iteration mind you! There is a LARGER plan in this. They are also integrating the ERP systems (Dynamics - formerly known as Navision and Axapta) - which means even more vendor lock in, but also a better workplace for information workers, as they call them.
I posted about the MS and SEX thing here almost a year ago. I also posted about SharePoint here in April 2004, when there was a big "roadshow" in Denmark that I attended.
December 22, 2006 - 22:16