Comments on: SharePoint – Microsoft’s Sleeper Cell

By: Dan Ciruli

Dan Ciruli — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:48:19 +0000

And remember that they just added a piece of killer functionality to SharePoint: Excel Services.

The market is going to take a while to grok this product–it’s too different from Excel for people to understand what it does. But when you put it in the context of “adding math and spreadsheet capability to SharePoint,” many eyes light up.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:28:53 +0000

@Brett – SharePoint already is a killer business app according to 17000 companies. SharePoint is certainly does not have the feature depth of Documentum, Alfresco, etc but they are extremely successful all the same.

By: Becky Smith

Becky Smith — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:50:17 +0000

I thought Jeff Raikes was behind SharePoint’s uptake.

By: Cliff Reeves

Cliff Reeves — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:20:27 +0000

Sharepoint has hosted offerings and includes wikis and blogs. See this blog entry: http://microsoftstartupzone.com/blogs/cliff_reeves/archive/2007/04/24/sharepoint-a-platform.aspx

By: Nari Kannan

Nari Kannan — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:36:07 +0000

We need to remember that Ray Ozzie is the wizard behind the curtain in Microsoft for Sharepoint.
Ray has been doing collaborative software for only 3 or decades or so. He created DECnotes when he was at DEC. Notes was in the DNA of every DECcie (120,000 nodes worldwide, about 100,000 forums worldwide). He then created LotusNotes and then Groove Networks. Ray knows collaboration.

No wonder Sharepoint is doing well inside Microsoft first, given Ray’s profile currently and outside with users!

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:59:35 +0000

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By: Brett Rogers

Brett Rogers — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:01:05 +0000

SharePoint has some great features, but its discussion forums are very user-unfriendly.

When SharePoint offers integrated Wiki, blog, calendar, individual and departmental bios, better forums, and a Craigslist-like request desk to ask for help from others, SharePoint will be a killer business app. When/if it becomes a user-friendly integrated social media app, Microsoft will have its business OS for the web.