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Wow SharePoint on HN! That doesn't happen a lot. I was at Microsoft in the group called MCS which stood for Microsoft Consulting Services during the 3rd releas
by danielodievich 4y ago
Wow SharePoint on HN! That doesn't happen a lot.
I was at Microsoft in the group called MCS which stood for Microsoft Consulting Services during the 3rd release of Sharepoint, the one that finally found market fit and was abbreviated MOSS (Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services) and we joked that M in MCS stood for MOSS because it sold like crazy and many of us in the field had crazy busy times supporting major implementations.
I was amazing at SharePoint, but I am very, very happy that I moved on and hopefully will never have to touch it again. It is an amazingly extensible product that was very often a victim of that exact extensibility.
I saw an intranet at Cisco that was build on some monstrous IBM software and it was impossible to navigate. And I saw Confluence based intranets that are quite nice. You get what you put into it. If you build a nice knowledge hierarchy and have librarians/content owners, you'll get a fine intranet regardless of software. If you don't, you won't.
- umeshunni 4y agoMOSS, now that's an acronym I haven't heard in nearly a decade and a half. I worked on that product at Microsoft 2004-9.
- mcswell 4y agoNow we know why the Rolling Stone Magazine doesn't use Sharepoint.
- trinix912 4y ago> some monstrous IBM software and it was impossible to navigate Was it Lotus Notes by any chance?
- danielodievich 4y agoIt was not Lotus... but it was something else! Information structure was arbitrary. Lots of content migrated into it from old CEC sites without any pruning/management. Very sensitive to the timeouts of logon tokens. Very inconsistent at needing or not needing an employee VPN. BRRR. I am just getting grossed out thinking about it now.