http://www.techworld.com.au/article/327539/first_look_microsoft_sharepoint_2010_beta

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/sharepoint-2010-a-business-collaboration-platform-005042.php

Are their self-exposing objects (lists, entities) enough for SOA?

Just food for thought ...

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=52245

Sharepoint can be an excellent foundation for Business Intelligence (BI)

http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1488-SharePoint---The-Henry-Ford-of-Business-Intelligence

http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/Microsoft-Office-Web-Applications-Your-Burning-Questions-Answered/

http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=211800363

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/20/sharepoint-platform-and-application.aspx

Is the next version of Sharepoint + SQL Server 2008 going to be the real WinFS?

you get transactional (SQL Server 2008) file storage with FILESTREAM + transactional NTFS with Windows 2008 + metadata and search with Sharepoint

;-)

http://www.cmswatch.com/About/Press/200803SHAREPOINT/

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032608-microsoft-sharepoint.html

Nice to see that Sharepoint MOSS 2007 is a Enterprise 2.0 innovation.

http://www.cio.com/article/183200/Enterprise_._Five_Innovations_the_CIO_Shouldn_t_Miss

http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1140-The-future-of-Plone----not-in-web-publishing
http://limi.net/articles/18-things-i-wish-were-true-about-plone/

http://cio-asia.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?articleid=7520&pubid=5&issueid=129

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/ibms-fight-to-stop-the-sharepoint-proliferation-002240.php

http://orange.advfn.com/news_Microsofts-SharePoint-Shines-but-Needs-Better-Support-Info-Tech-Research-Group_24257158.html

I fully agree with the assessment, also my customers have the same type of needs. MS is ramping up big time, the difference between Sharepoint 2003 and 2007 is a magnitude better.

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/one-collaboration-platform-to-rule-them-all-002127.php

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2007/1217msg1.html

http://www.cio.com/article/165554/Forrester_Report_Collaboration_Software_Adoption_on_the_Rise_in_

http://mcpmag.com/reviews/books/article.asp?EditorialsID=171

http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1068-SharePoint-as-a-.NET-development-platform

http://www.techlinks.net/CommunityPublishing/tabid/92/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3905/MOSS-2007-What-It-Means-for-Your-Business.aspx

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/11/09/228031/chevron-to-use-sharepoint-in-180-countries.htm

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=739

http://www.ecmconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B2B3474B2-D222-48A4-A237-0A13AD39FD36%7D&Bucket=Contributed+Editorial

Office 14 seems to be scheduled for 2009, will there be Sharepoint 2009 ?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=728

http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202100083&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/-sharepoint-moss-disrupts-enterprise-cms-market-001723.php

Generally the reviews about Sharepoint 2007 have been quite "fair", critics perhaps citing some lack of features vs niche product X which is OK. And we all know it; that Sharepoint is a "platform", suite or even some think of it as an OS, and sometimes there might be  the need for external tools or even the need to use-integrate competing products to gain specific capabilities. 

Lately I've been seeing a large amount of rants about "Sharepoint Lock -In" from a  Matt Asay.

While he seems quite a smart guy, one has to consider following:

- Lock-in will always occur when people/corporations spend lots of money in getting data into one system (be it a mainframe, ERP, a ECM system or even a open source solution (stack) ) to get a certain value (coming from rationalization, alignment internal skills, better integration, best-of-breed or whatever)  so that moving away costs even more (whatever the new tecnology platform)

- Integration (typically Microsoft) can be badmouthed at because it creates "lock-in" even if at  the same time it can create huge productivity boost, and all the rest of the advantages IT and companies love.

- Even on mainframes, with IBM billing up by the minute, one can use SOA to "free" data to other systems.

- One can argue about "open" software, open data and even open logic (as in corporate knowledge) which should be modelled in tecnology  neutral BPEL 2.0 rather than a mere if-then-else statement.

While I under stand his company, with products competing with Sharepoint,  doesn't integrate with Microsoft Office (therefore snobbing 90% of potential customer) it isn't Sharepoint fault for facilitating customers while his products don't even make the effort.

He's paid to spin open source and that's ok, but labeling others as "lockin" just because one doesn't have/want some integration to satisfy customers it not OK.

He's a smart guy, and he can do better.

(via http://blogs.msdn.com/dazwilkin/archive/2007/09/12/searchsap-com-sap-snags-big-win-over-oracle-thanks-to-duet-tco.aspx)

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid21_gci1271899,00.html

http://www.crn.com/software/201804171?pgno=2

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/27/35TCforms_1.html

http://entmag.com/reports/article.asp?EditorialsID=119

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=208

http://computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=6011&pubid=3&tab=Home&issueid=116

http://www.gcn.com/print/26_19/44752-1.html

• 800 milion USD last year
• 85 milion seats deployed
• up to 70% will use it

read more on http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=arwUHnWLaPcU&refer=technology

NHS : UK National Health Service (1 milion employees, budget 104 Bilion GBP - 150 bilion USD) built the portal on Sharepoint MOSS 2007.

http://www.nhs.uk/Pages/homepage.aspx

(via http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2007/06/oakleaf-systems.html)

http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2007/06/18/linq-to-sharepoint-announcing-the-0-2-alpha-release.aspx

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=521

http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci1261157,00.html

Windows SharePoint hits its stride

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2006/10/18/4910.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/scaravajal/archive/2006/11/18/moss-vs-wss-v3.aspx

http://www.wssdemo.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=185

http://buytaert.net/sharepoint-2007

http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/002287.html

http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/03/sharepoint_micr.html

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=327

Sharepoint is an operating system OS ?

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ibm-plans-jump-social-networking-competition/story.aspx?guid=%7B821FA6C8-BB03-4F83-ACAB-C6252675FDF1%7D

That's the number of ALL Lotus seats sold ...

http://jopx.blogspot.com/2007/02/forrester-research-ecm-market-19-growth.html

http://www.offlinesharepoint.com/sharepoint-2007-uptake-should-be-quick/

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1724779744;fp;2;fpid;3

http://www.messagingnews.com/magazine/2006/11/features/sharepoint_2007_for_collaboration.html
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2082618,00.asp
Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Peer Product Review - Overview
Review- 2007 Microsoft Office Beta 2 Is Up And Running

Sharepoint offers a duplex solution for companies: IT both allows flexibility in users interacting on collaboration and content creation(like blogs, wikis), but also imposes policies to take care of content(classification with content types, RM, auditing, security).