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.
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.
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.
