Category Archives: SharePoint

The risks of learning a SharePoint alternative 1

A few days ago, I heard someone complaining about the risk of introducing a light-weight CMS as an alternative for the default SharePoint (MOSS2007) solutions. The main issue was the amount of learning that would be required to get productive in the alternative environment.
Now let me throw in a bold statement: if your developers have [...]

How can we make the SharePoint world a better world? 2

Lots of companies are positioning SharePoint as their preferred platform for everything that has to do with the web, both intranet and public facing websites. Now out-of-the-box, SharePoint delivers excellent value, but when building custom functionality or public facing sites, there are some serious issues.
My biggest gripes are:

The whole development experience is awful. Yes, you [...]