Typically, as an evangelist for this technology over the past few years, the major reason for investment in the Enterprise CAL was based in two features: InfoPath/Forms Server and Excel Services. With the advent of the 2010 set, there are several features that I think make the uptake much more valuable for any business or organization.
For the most part, organizations that invested in SharePoint, or had SharePoint CALs as a part of their Enterprise Agreement, were taking advantage of the Standard features of the product. Powerful, yet inexpensive, as far as enterprise content management systems go.
Since my most popular blog post of all time happened to be the one on licensing for SharePoint 2007, I thought it may be valid to put together some information for people trying to understand how to position SharePoint 2010 in their enterprise (read: figure out which edition to purchase).
This is going to be several articles, focusing on Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Internet Sites and Online.
Yesterday, Gizmodo broke the story regarding Microsoft cancelling the Courier project. With the HP Slate being cancelled, even after unveiled at CES, there is very little upcoming for Microsoft in terms of tablet-based computing. There is little doubt, with the purchase of Palm, that HP has some sort of vision for mobility that may or may not include Redmond.
Like in Joel Johnson’s article at Gizmodo, I too am most disappointed about the fact that the thinking behind the device isn’t going to make it to production. EAVB_IBGIEFKRHF
I thought I would take the time to write a few posts about my newest phone, the HTC Touch Pro2. After the first day of usage, I’m coming around to really enjoying the phone –and I’m going to tell you why. This is review is going to touch on a number of different facets of the experience, including the hardware, the TouchFlo interface and, of course, Windows Mobile 6.1. I was looking for fairly specific functionality in my new mobile device, and this will be reflected in my review.
Microsoft SharePoint vs. Enterprise 2.0 Start-ups
(via @gannotti) An interesting article on the challenge of selecting SharePoint as a platform versus some of the more nimble (yet unstable) e2.0 options. Based on my experience, the SharePoint Decision (by Robert Ludlum, available at your local bookseller) can be a difficult one because some of the ‘cutting edge’ features that are so trendy now will not make it into the final release. However, as the old adage goes, no one is ever fired for hiring IBM choosing Microsoft; they are stable, and as the article states, will be “here for forever and a day.”
Most appropriate, I think, is the question in regards to whether or not SharePoint is “good enough”. In my experience, many organizations are (a) already licenced for SharePoint, and (b) when implemented, are not using the feature set to its fullest potential. Food for thought, I suppose.
Microsoft SharePoint Social Computing
New MSFT website outling SharePoint’s potential in the realm of social computing, focusing on customer wins and case studies. Bonus: it’s running on SharePoint 2007 for Internet.
Alright, this isn’t a normal blog post (and its a fairly old link), but I thought this was a great example of using Excel’s charting capabilities for good, not evil. Well, maybe not necessarily good, but good design in an IW product set.
There have been a lot of times when I’ve had a client say, after a presentation, “How did you do that in [insert Office product here]?” In this case, I actually had to ask, “How did you do that?”
Recreating the NY Times Cancer Graph
The video (in Quicktime) is not short (and may not be exciting for people who don’t like making pretty graphs in Excel), but it is worth the watch.
Note: I realize this is my first post in 20 months. I will try harder, I promise.
An interesting artcile put forth by Tom Austin at Gartner on the prevelence of Windows SharePoint Services in the years to come:
Top 12 Resources for Office Architects and Developers
Erika Ehrli has compiled an excellent list of resource for Office Architects and Developers. Normally, I wouldn’t post this type of resource here, but there some excellent tools for decision makers.
For Fun: eboy’s FooBar poster.
Check it out. I just ordered one.
About my links: Should I be posting more links, less frequently, or fewer links, more frequently?
A few links which may be of value:
Planning for Performance and Capacity
“In order to provide specific guidance, several configurations were tested that cover the most common usage scenarios for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.” From Joel Oleson.