I don't really think its appropriate to say that SharePoint and Drupal compete because they don't in any relevant ways as far as market share, sales, etc that the business community uses as the yardstick for success. What does Drupal compete with then - well the answer is probably Community Server(.net/MS SQL), but even then their approach to the end user and consuming communities is vastly different. Drupal uses the "built" by the community approach which is more or less embraced a pro open source community, but not in large part by the business community. If Drupal could provide seamless open office integration, collaboration, role based security with good administration, etc then you'd have a SharePoint competitor. If SharePoint could be used to built rich communities with features and community driven content, then it would be a Drupal competitor.
I don't really think its appropriate to say that SharePoint and Drupal compete because they don't in any relevant ways as far as market share, sales, etc that the business community uses as the yardstick for success. What does Drupal compete with then - well the answer is probably Community Server(.net/MS SQL), but even then their approach to the end user and consuming communities is vastly different. Drupal uses the "built" by the community approach which is more or less embraced a pro open source community, but not in large part by the business community. If Drupal could provide seamless open office integration, collaboration, role based security with good administration, etc then you'd have a SharePoint competitor. If SharePoint could be used to built rich communities with features and community driven content, then it would be a Drupal competitor.
January 10, 2007 - 03:45