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Microsoft SharePoint's success a very real threat to open source
- jodrellblank 17y ago"Your content is trapped in Sharepoint, but now you can use the APIs Sharepoint has had forever to get your data out and Google Docs' new APIs to put it in Google Docs instead so your data will be free from evil Microsoft lock-in!" ...? Hello? How come Google Docs' API counts so your content isn't considered locked in, but Sharepoint's doesn't?
- electromagnetic 17y agoBecause Google isn't Microsoft, it's stupid but that's how people think. I use Google Docs' for my writing, but you can bet sure as shit that I have a backup just in case (in fact I have a backup on my PC, external hard drive, web server and as an attachment in gmail).
- wglb 17y agoGoogle is doing this: http://www.dataliberation.org/ http://www.dataliberation.org/
- E5Rebel 17y agovery sensible too. The point is that Sharepoint is designed to colonise the organisation without the IT department knowing. You don't have top bean open source fanatic to see the danger in this. I'm happy to use Microsoft products, but you have to make sure you know where your dependencies are. Google is a super power and I'm wary of it, but as it fights to push Microsoft into second place it can open up some previously closed technology. That is good for us all - even Microsoft and its reluctant embrace of interoperability
- jrockway 17y agoHow is it a threat to open source?
- skwiddor 17y agothreat by headline
- steverb 17y agoDoes the google api allow you to get data out of Sharepoint that wasn't accessible via the Sharepoint Web Services already?
- steverb 17y agoDoes the google api allow you to get data out of Sharepoint that wasn't accessible via the Sharepoint Web Services already?
- etherael 17y agoSharepoint is so bad we've had tiny mvc doc repos requested just to deal with it's shortcomings. Nuff said.