First Thoughts

September 28, 2007

Having spent the last 3 days in training for Application Development in Sharepoint 2007, I have two overall conclusions:

1) Sharepoint has some decent power to it. I can see some very effective uses that an organization could get from Sharepoint very quickly.

2) This power is limited. It probably has only 20% of the functions of a Domino server out of the box. It is extensible via .net coding, of course, but the built in functions seem equivalent to about Version 2 of Notes/Domino. With a nicer interface. It probably will not take the 10 years Domino took to mature to the current state, but I do suspect it is 3-5 years before it is truly a full application development platform.

Overall, the lack of power of Sharepoint might not be such a bad thing. It is only one tool in the Microsoft platform. If you need more power, you can use other tools. This seems like a bad thing to a Notes person, as we are used to having everything in one place. But that is really personal preference. I don’t have a strong business case for any complaint.

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2 Responses to “First Thoughts”

  1. Missaman Says:

    October 5, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    3 to 5 years? OMG. I’ve been doing serious SP development for the last year and it’s amazingly powerful – far beyond that of Notes (which really hasn’t changed much at all since v4). Maybe you haven’t experienced the full WSS object model, the incredible power of VS2005 which is fully integrated with SP, or the new .NET 3.0 framework features such as WF. In “3 to 5 years” SP will have dwarfed Notes in the market. It’s a perfect time as well, since so many companies are migrating to Exchange and will be upgrading to Office 2007. It’s just an incredibly natural migration…

  2. migratenotes Says:

    October 6, 2007 at 1:17 am

    @1 – While I agree that the current trends appear to have SharePoint gaining market share, I disagree with the details of your comment.

    The integration of VS.NET with SP is nowhere near the full event-driven model that is in Domino. I do know the WSS model, and while the model is adequate, the integration is still a bit of a hack.

    Don’t get me wrong – this blog is about the exact migration you feel is so natural. But your tone shows a very strong bias that I do not share.

    Thanks!


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