CMS Watch: Twelve Predictions for 2008

January 8 2008

Been expecting this one...

MOSS enters the valley of disappointment

SharePoint will continue to grow at viral rates as a low cost, low touch, document collaboration system. But in 2008 we will see the start of a noticeable backlash, particularly among larger enterprises.

The backlash will be two-fold. First larger enterprises will exhibit major compliance and litigation discovery issues across numerous unmanaged and unaccountable SharePoint locations. You will also see a backlash against sizable development costs and times to build maintainable applications in the MOSS environment. With the more complex SharePoint projects struggling to launch, customers are realizing a disconnect between Redmond's heavy promotion and the realities of a product that is significantly less out-of-the-box than most expect.

Link: CMS Watch: Twelve Predictions for 2008 > (Via Michael Sampson)

Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Microsoft  Add/View Comments [12]

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  1. 1  tonyo  | 1/8/2008 12:53:07 PM

    funny.. IBM wasn't really mentioned at all :)

  1. 2  tom http://www.codepress.net/b | 1/8/2008 1:13:45 PM

    " customers are realizing a disconnect between Redmond's heavy promotion and the realities of a product that is significantly less out-of-the-box than most expect. "

    AMEN!

  1. 3  Nick Hortovanyi http://blogs.toasttechnology.com.au/roller/hortovanyi | 1/8/2008 2:58:15 PM

    Think Microsoft have won this battle... Their MOSS software is installed on a very large percentage of customer sites now. Any manager who has made the decision will continue to back his previous decision.

    What I'm interest in, is "How is IBM going to tackle this MOSS proliferation issue?" especially since it has been great for IBM xSeries sales.

  1. 4  Simon Barratt http://apps.fmc.com/blog.nsf | 1/8/2008 3:26:33 PM

    I can't see how they can claim that SharePoint will grow at low cost. The high entry cost of Sharepoint is the biggest inhibitor in our use of the product. It is a classic MS licensing nightmare.

  1. 5  tom http://www.codepress.net/b | 1/8/2008 5:04:03 PM

    @3 If IBM really gets FileNet integration to work with Quickr... our company will really be interested.

    @4 I think you forgot to read paragraph two.

  1. 6  tonyo  | 1/8/2008 7:04:25 PM

    So I'm curious.. what does IBM have to solve the problem. Most Notes customers have thousands of Notes databases with no idea what's in them.

  1. 7  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/8/2008 7:16:26 PM

    Tony, your second shot was better than your first, but they both miss the point about development challenges in the SharePoint environment.

  1. 8  Nick Hortovanyi http://blogs.toasttechnology.com.au/roller/hortovanyi | 1/8/2008 8:04:57 PM

    @7 Ed, How is QED Wiki coming along? Will this be part of Lotus? MOSS is all about central control, not distributed development. Is that the answer?

  1. 9  tonyo  | 1/8/2008 8:40:37 PM

    Well managed development is challenging to do on any environment - as IBM moves to a more Eclipse based model, what kind of impact will that have?

  1. 10  Chris Whisonant http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com | 1/8/2008 9:10:41 PM

    "SharePoint will continue to grow at viral rates as a low cost, low touch, document collaboration system."

    Tell that to the Exchange customer I'm installing ST and Quickr for... ;)

  1. 11  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/9/2008 6:07:07 AM

    @8 stay tuned