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OT but relevant: The heavy tread of IT.
Quoting from the stern warnings about SharePoint from another Comment:

?(A)s many shops are discovering, SharePoint is also a development platform that people both inside and outside of IT use to create intranets, outward-facing portals, electronic forms, workflows, and even dashboards. The promise of SharePoint: Your organization will be able to create and deploy collaboration applications faster and give businesspeople productive new tools. The pitfalls: SharePoint can add new unplanned demands as your teams fill the product?s gaps in application life-cycle management and enterprise integration and as they create policies to prevent a new chaos of usergenerated applications.?
[End quote from a Forrester study.]

?Unfortunately many organisations do not carefully consider whether the product is the best match for their web requirements and many do not even take the time to review alternatives. There are good reasons for the popularity of SharePoint, but it is certainly not as safe and risk-free as many like to think. We recommend that you consistently evaluate SharePoint against your current and future requirements and do not make SharePoint an automatic fit for all future web projects.?
[End quote from a J. Boye article]



So there's your innovation, Murph. Users grab Microsoft products intended to be easy to use and maintain and create what they need quickly.

Oh, after a while IT will catch up and force the innovation and unique advantages underground, but if those who know the job work rapidly enough they can make substantial progress toward the organization's success before they're stopped.

That's been Microsoft's advantage: they sell controls to IT and freedom to users.
Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 07/21/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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OT but relevant: The heavy tread of IT.  Anton Philidor | 07/21/08
Snarepoint is a plague  Roger Ramjet | 07/21/08
Agreed  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 07/21/08
You clomped.  Anton Philidor | 07/21/08
I guess . . .  Roger Ramjet | 07/21/08
So how do you solve it?  Erik Engbrecht | 07/21/08
That's not my experience  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 07/22/08
Agreed - but do you remember cigarrete ads?  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 07/21/08
Yes.  Anton Philidor | 07/21/08
Time and attention  Anton Philidor | 07/21/08
No B@ls , no blue chips  Roger Ramjet | 07/21/08
The easy way.. or the right way?  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 07/21/08
Importance of IT  Anton Philidor | 07/21/08
Mr. Conservative has spoken!  Roger Ramjet | 07/21/08
Gradualism  Anton Philidor | 07/21/08
More like the American Revolution  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 07/21/08
I see what you mean.  Anton Philidor | 07/21/08
Why the long article just to say Unix is the answer to everything?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/21/08
Actually, that's 7.14  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 07/21/08
Did read it  tonymcs@... | 07/21/08
Somehow I knew ...  dkawalec | 07/21/08
Do you think...  dave.leigh@... | 07/21/08
Bottom line status quo can't be SOP.  TripleII | 07/21/08
Starts great, and then...  Erik Engbrecht | 07/21/08
Exactly  brble | 07/21/08

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