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.
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
