SharePoint: Why Not? by Craig Roth (Meta Group, Delta 2944, 7 June 2004) offers a look at Sharepoint and how organizations are and should consider adopting portal technologies now and in the future. The summary also touches on it's related Microsoft products (Office, SQL Server, Active Directory, BizTalk Server, Visual Studio.Net, Windows, Live Communication Server, Content Management Server, and IIS), and a few competing products (from Open Text, Plumtree, Vignette, SAP, and Computer Associates)

'In many organizations, expansion of Microsoft's SharePoint technologies seems to be inevitable due to unofficial grassroots adoption and standardization on Microsoft Office. However, organizations that have determined they would benefit from a portal framework should still evaluate their options, which include moving to or coexisting with other portal frameworks.'

Their bottom line:

'Organizations should not let grassroots adoption of Microsoft's SharePoint technologies lead to an automatic enterprise decision. SharePoint is a competitive framework, but it should be evaluated to determine whether it should be the enterprise portal for the organization, coexist with another framework, or be isolated.'

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