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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.

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

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.

Most smaller organizations who are looking to consolidate their enterprise content management are going to be looking towards SharePoint Server 2007 to hopefully answer those needs.

What you may not necessarily understand that in order to turn on MOSS 2007 to face internally and externally, there is a fairly complex licensing arrangement.

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As I stated in my last post, the different editions of MOSS 2007 will be offering a whole series of new features and capabilities.Microsoft has released a series of comparisons between previous and new versions. You can view the HTML version here, and you can download a version for Excel here.

Via Paul Ribeiro.

Update: Mark Muller has posted a very interesting, visual representation of the CAL model for SharePoint 2007.