SharePoint CAN create CHAOS!
August 5th, 2008
A recent “To everyone it may concern” style email landed* in my inbox a couple of weeks ago linking to this article which is actually refering to this forrester report warning organisations which everyone concerned with SharePoint should indeed read.
Essentially the article, reflecting the shocking* revelation from the report, is stating that industry is adopting SharePoint as a development platform (to replace intranet sites, create collaborative portals and so on) at a rate even Microsoft weren’t prepared for and lack of expertise and foresight has resulted in many SharePoint deployments going horribly pear shaped.
I’m going to refrain from throwing in my own opinions at this stage other than to shake my head in agreement and say “Yeeees” in a very “Isn’t that obvious though?” kind of way. I’m fairly certain that, while many people may be over complicating their portal & intranet environments – rushing to uninstall Lotus notes or their legacy intranet systems and install the mighty SharePoint (because it does everything!) causing chaos left right and center because they are “messing with powers they can’t possibly comprehend!”, nobody will in fact be seriously harmed in the madness.
* lie 1: emails do not land or fly and must be fetched
* lie 2: This is not shocking, it is in fact blindingly obvious
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