Should Microsoft kill SharePoint?
The link refers to an interesting article on Memeburn that appeared on the internet and is based on Gartner’s analyst Jeffrey Mann’s opinion. The header attracts, but the message is different.
Should SharePoint stay or should it go? What is your opinion?
About the article and on the statement.
Gartner article is a waste of time- just another opinion on the tired trend of EVERYTHING going to the “Cloud.”
*yawn*
Ken, I work in an org that makes me think don’t post much to this forum because we are so protective of our ideas and information. If you say cloud people laugh. I have to agree with you. I have worked in the Beverage industry, the Music industry, Banking and now Legal. Mostly very large industries (like over 100,000 employees) who were very protective of their proprietary ideas, innovations, and information. Not one of those places would consider putting their critical data anywhere unless they were under full control of it.
That said, if I worked for recipefinder.org or the yellowpages.com I might consider it. I talked with some small business owners recently and they said they were all cloud because they had no IT skills whatsoever and could hardly turn on a pc, and they couldn’t afford consultants of any kind. That makes sense but they probably wouldn’t have an in house Sharepoint install anyway. It might also explain why there is so much identity and credit card theft. The fact that Adobe Cloud Services got hacked already tells me to tread carefully. Makes me think pay cash from now on.Â
No. There are people who get paid to steal ideas and get information from competitors. It’s murky but it’s out there. The cloud must be an attractive source for stealing info. No I think the cloud has a purpose but I don’t think the model works as much as it is hyped. Advertising it like it’s going to take over at present seems pretty presumptuous.Â
Rob,
While that’s great that you got Gartner’s response, and what they see as the future, I don’t hold anyone’s predictions on where a technology will be 2 years out. This simple statement, “SharePoint as you know it is dead” is such a troll statement from Gartner and others in the industry.
SharePoint is far from being dead in any facet of that word.
SharePoint being a very large platform, capable of so many solutions, is expanding and showing it’s range as a product. SharePoint is becoming a platform to do basic Web Content Management (single user O365 web site for internet consumption), Small Business Collaboration (O365 multi-user environment) to educational and enterprise customers (O365 – universities, Energizer). SharePoint On-Prem becomes an attractive offering (as it always has been) for enterprises who already have the infrastructure and the investments to support the technology in house.
The platform of SharePoint is not going anywhere. How updates will be performed is up to each individual host: O365, Azure, FPWeb, etc. or On-Prem. The development between the two platforms (if the App model is adopted) is full fidelity. The CSOMs are the same no matter where SharePoint is hosted – that’s the point.
It’s not that SharePoint as we know it is dead…Â SharePoint 2007 is dead as we know it when SharePoint 2010 came out – if you want to use that statement.
People are frantically trying to get notoriety out of a potential shift in EVERY market as we move towards cloud… to say that On-Prem technologies are “dead”
Sheesh…Â
Thanks for sharing Rob. We also ran a poll on here with a good few responses. This poll showed that on premise is still a big titan with 93% off respondents still using it as their main SharePoint. http://sharepoint-community.net/profiles/blogs/office-365-adoption-will-grow-from-7-to-11-over-the-next-2-3-year
