Maybe but I can think of several cases where I'd have to disagree with that blanket statement.
The biggest feature is the integrated authentication and file management/sharing capability and if you have LCS/OCS then there is nothing that compares with that collaboration integration in SharePoint. There are products where someone can assemble a similar experience but it certainly won't be seamless and it will also be sorely lacking in support if your in house developer/implementer gets hit by a bus. SharePoints biggest problem is also shared by many open source CMS solutions which is some 'person' decides that it will solve all their worldly business needs and doesn't actually properly plan what they expect to accomplish with it beyond some ill defined "We'll put our documents there"..... But that's not a problem explicit to SharePoint. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll bet that for any set of features you care to enumerate for > SharePoint that are critical to you, there is something else in the > marketplace that can perform the function. Often, though not always, > it'll be available as open source. > > I'll bet that the alternatives will also be more standards-compliant as well. > > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Ben Schorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, if you want to build your entire business around the premise of >> don't run any software from Microsoft (or hardware from IBM, HP, >> Apple...) then I guess that's up to you. >> >> I'd sort of rather get our work done and our product out the door than >> make a symbolic point nobody outside of this listserv is going to hear. >> :-) >> >> Ben M. Schorr >> Chief Executive Officer >> ______________________________________________ >> Roland Schorr & Tower >> www.rolandschorr.com >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:48 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: Firefox 3.0 Download Day >> >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Sorry, that's just the wrong way to think about it. Sharepoint fills >> a >>> business requirement. >> >> That seems short-sighted. It seems to me that "don't use products >> from vendors whose only way of making a buck is to get customers >> locked in by destroying compatibility with standards" should also be a >> business requirement. >> >> -- Ben >> >> ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ >> >> ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ >> > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
