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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
An interesting artcile put forth by Tom Austin at Gartner on the prevelence of Windows SharePoint Services in the years to come:
http://blog.gartner.com/blog/index.php?itemid=1637
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.
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About my links: Should I be posting [...]
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.