Thoughts on the webcast today from Microsoft titled "Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint for the Lotus Notes Administrator (Level 100)"
Tags :Rant
Where shall I begin? How about I have
attached the PDF printout of the slides to this blog entry for everyone
that did not register to throw darts at read and review.
It was given by Amy Blumenfield and Gary Devendorf, which in itself
drew attention from about 17 diehards. See Sharepoint has an image
of an auditorium that shows virtual seats taken by attendees. With
180 seats per section and 3 sections in the diagram, we were all forced
to sit in the front row like bad kids in 3rd grade that don't pay attention.
Ok, so I managed to not always pay attention to this either.
MS SharePoint for the Lotus Notes Administrator.pdf
Some of the comparisons were fair, but
left off was hardware requirements (no mention at all) and some other interesting
comparisons that left off Quickplace or other areas of Domino, I
expected no less. The Domino directory one could be expanded to show
LDAP integrations since SSO was a point that was mentioned more than once,
referring to AD. The actual presentation was not as smooth as expected
and the constant banter form Gary made it seem not like a funfest
collaborative presentation, but interruptions.
Now WSS being free is a stab at Sametime
chat, which is the only part free. But of course, you must have Windows
2003 purchased to get it free. Once again sounds like Domino client
licenses. Lets look at the real picture. Can you not create
a document library in Domino that has check-in and out capabilities (document
locking anyone) that can be replicated securely to your local machine?
Is this not part of Domino already? Nothing more special needed?
I am really beating the horse trying to formulate
where this product compares/fits. It will grab pieces, almost like
portlets from Domino (iNotes for example) to serve up too.
One twist was they tossed a line in about
Groove replication but refused to make comment in a question asked at the
end saying they could not talk about Groove integration. Let's not
put it in slide #23 then. No need to comment on Windows clustering
against Domino clustering. One point made was that Domino has a 64Gb
limit in Domino 6 yet Sharepoint is unlimited. I want some testing
here folks. Everything else you can read in the file since my lunch
is here and I am starved.
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On Wednesday, September 14th, 2005 by Chris Miller
