Maybe Not?
February 17, 2008
There has been a reason for not updating here in a long time.
The burnout factor in trying to make SharePoint work is of course a factor. But more than that, we’ve finally started trying to architect our first major apps in SharePoint. That effort has shown just how short SharePoint falls. All the people who have been pushing SharePoint, saying that its “out of the box” functionality can build entire apps have realized that that is not true.
The final conclusion is that while SharePoint can handle maybe 30% of any given apps functionality out of the box, the other 70% needs to be covered by BizTalk, .NET coding, and other Microsoft technologies. SharePoint is not living up to its marketing.
The most ironic part of it all is that SharePoint shares exactly the same weaknesses as Notes. So if we did move entirely to SharePoint, we’d still have a system that is weak on reporting and on transactional processing.
Our management team is re-evaluating SharePoint, and might reverse their decision to move there. Or might not. But the discussions have been re-opened. 
