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Have you ever had to support sharepoint? I don't know if I'd consider it an excellent product.
by thehigherlife 16y ago
Have you ever had to support sharepoint? I don't know if I'd consider it an excellent product.
- dmor 16y agoIt makes $1 billion per year
- philwelch 16y agoLots of crappy products make $1 billion per year, especially enterprise products.
- blasdel 16y agoAs bad as Sharepoint is, most of its competitors are much worse and also make huge piles of money.
- rbanffy 16y agoNothing can be much worse than Sharepoint. edit: there are categories of software that have representatives that are more dysfunctional than Sharepoint. Still, Sharepoint is pretty much the worst document management/intranet package you can find.
- blasdel 16y agoSounds like you've never been forced to use any of the Oracle Applications webapps!
- rbanffy 16y agoThey may be bad, but come on, much worse than Sharepoint?
- blasdel 16y agoYes, worse than Lotus Notes or Sharepoint. I've seen some gibberingly awful Oracle web interfaces for HR stuff like entering time cards, but the worst was a "Software Life Cycle Management" thing that a client was using — a bizarre issue tracker with piles of inane baked in process. When you logged in it would open a sole chrome-less popup window. You weren't allowed to be logged in more than once per account: one computer, one browser session, one window, one tab, period. There were no hyperlinks and only one URL — all the buttons POSTed a form with tons of parameters back to the same URL, with lots of state both in the session on the server and independently in cookies. You couldn't link to anything, it had a ridiculous taxonomy system, and the search was actively antagonistic to you finding anything. Most of the actual data worth looking at was in unindexed Word documents attached to the issues.
- hboon 16y agoYour words remind me of a software called ChangePoint. Nightmares about it still haunt me.
- philwelch 16y agoEnterprise software can be surprisingly awful. blasdel's story is the best, but I remember being astonished that you could actually pay for version control software. The fact that said version control software didn't even have atomic commits but did, interestingly enough, run on its own proprietary file system was almost a Kafkaesque punchline.
- msie 16y agoReminds me of the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." SharePoint works with so many MS products and there is such a huge eco system that goes with it. I think it's a safe bet for many companies that already rely on MS products. I would also give a lot of credit to the MS consulting/salesforce for many sales of that product.
- rbanffy 16y agoI think "excellent" is nowhere close to any adjective I would use to describe it. You may consider it good, as long as you have never, ever used anything more sophisticated than a network share to manage your documents.