The Challenges of Part 2
SharePoint for Collaboration
LAST ISSUE, THE AUTHOR COVERED WHY AND HOW TO START. THIS MONTH HE WRAPS UP THIS TWO-PART SERIES,
BEGINNING WITH ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGES.
BY DAVID COLEMAN
SharePoint architecture, which is not inherently collaborative, is based on a much older model of "publish and sub- scribe." It is very top-down and hierar- chy supportive, more like a Web 1.0 (or pre-Web) application than today's Web 2.0 social applications. SharePoint is really a Web 1.0 tool more focused on
content than people. Most organizations use it just for a com- mon document store. What is interesting is that many enterprises are gung-ho about SharePoint for collaboration and buy into Microsoft's marketing (which I admit is pretty good). However, when we have gone back to these organizations six months or
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