Leadership By Numbers

Category

Fontana gave a fair, and informative overview of Microsoft's Sharepoint, and other than Gia Lyons, not many bloggers picked it up.

"I have not seen anything like this since the early days of [Lotus] Notes," says Mike Gotta, an analyst with the Burton Group. In those days, corporate users were enamored with a shiny new technology that seemed to have infinite uses. "The talk [around SharePoint] is getting strategic now, and people are talking about it as a middleware decision," Gotta says. . . .

SharePoint, however, isn't without issues that users should consider, including the fact that it does not scale well given the way it stores data in SQL Server, a concern Microsoft is working to answer in the next version likely to ship in 2009.

Or that its social-networking tools are considered rudimentary, that SharePoint's portal capabilities still don't measure up to enterprise-class platforms, and that the server takes customizations to make it truly sing.

"I think there is going to be some buyer's remorse," Gotta says.

Fontana goes on to mention that IBM is not standing still, and points to Quickr. But, I don't even want to compare the trends.google.com findings between Quickr and Sharepoint. Oh, wait. I can't. Lotus Quickr doesn't even rate enough search volume to be graphed.

Still work to be done.



Technorati Tags: Lotus Quickr, Microsoft Sharepoint