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I think it massively sucks. I work with it every day. It is a slow beast. It does have widgets for blogging and wiki pages, but even the simple task of blogging

by rman666 18y ago

I think it massively sucks. I work with it every day. It is a slow beast. It does have widgets for blogging and wiki pages, but even the simple task of blogging is painful with it. One of the things I've heard, but not explored myself, is that at the back-end is a giant SQL-ish database and every page and site created with it is something like a single record, so security administration is nightmare as it is not nearly granular enough. I'd like to learn otherwise. At the same time, it seems MS is committed to SharePoint, so I'm sure there will be ongoing improvements. Honestly, most of the time I'd rather have WordPress and a good Wiki in-house. At the same time, I think I'd be hard-pressed to identify a competitor to all SharePoint has to offer (workflow, document management, check-out/in, integration with instant messenger, etc.).

kogir 18y ago
It actually does store everything in a huge MSSQL database behind the scenes. From an administrative standpoint this is wonderful because there is only one thing to back up. Security is pretty good. You can usually set permissions on a per page or per item basis, but it's a pain to do so.
- barryrandall 18y ago
  I can assure you that backing up SharePoint is a bit more complicated than a single database backup. There's a bit of a left hand/right hand problem at Microsoft when it comes to this product. The SharePoint team seems to go out of their way to make SQL Server-based backups painful, and they ignore the high availability technologies built in to the DBMS. You'd think they were trying to be database agnostic.
coolestuk 18y ago
>> I'd be hard-pressed to identify a competitor to all SharePoint has to offer (workflow, document management, check-out/in, integration with instant messenger, etc.). << Er... Lotus Notes has been around for about 25 years, and has all that, and a lot more -- the fine-grained security you ask for, and replication, Java/VB integration and runs on about 6 different platforms including Windows. Even a small company of two people can have it up and running for a couple of hundred bucks. IBM's marketing is atrocious, but Notes is an incredibly secure and flexible product.

by rman666 18y ago

kogir 18y ago

It actually does store everything in a huge MSSQL database behind the scenes. From an administrative standpoint this is wonderful because there is only one thing to back up. Security is pretty good. You can usually set permissions on a per page or per item basis, but it's a pain to do so.

barryrandall 18y ago
I can assure you that backing up SharePoint is a bit more complicated than a single database backup. There's a bit of a left hand/right hand problem at Microsoft when it comes to this product. The SharePoint team seems to go out of their way to make SQL Server-based backups painful, and they ignore the high availability technologies built in to the DBMS. You'd think they were trying to be database agnostic.

coolestuk 18y ago

>> I'd be hard-pressed to identify a competitor to all SharePoint has to offer (workflow, document management, check-out/in, integration with instant messenger, etc.). << Er... Lotus Notes has been around for about 25 years, and has all that, and a lot more -- the fine-grained security you ask for, and replication, Java/VB integration and runs on about 6 different platforms including Windows. Even a small company of two people can have it up and running for a couple of hundred bucks. IBM's marketing is atrocious, but Notes is an incredibly secure and flexible product.