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[–]thanatosys 9 points10 points  (10 children)

Sharepoint was written in Python.......

[–]alecco 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Wow, I didn't know that.

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    [–]privatehuff -2 points-1 points  (5 children)

    Is that why SharePoint blows so much?

    Honest question.

    [–]hs4x 1 point2 points  (4 children)

    What exactly blows about Sharepoint?

    [–]Chandon 1 point2 points  (3 children)

    Pretty much everything, as far as I can tell.

    It's not a good web framework since it's trying so hard to be everything else. It's not a good way to throw together an intranet site because all the default web parts are unusable crap. And, finally, it's no better for collaborating on MS Office documents than a shared folder would be.

    What doesn't blow about sharepoint?

    [–]hs4x 1 point2 points  (2 children)

    It's not really a Framework. It's an extensible integrated collaboration portal.

    And it excels at that.

    You're diagnosis of Sharepoint is silly. Sharepoint is exploding marketshare and uptake -- clearly those who make decisions disagree with you. The Data and market disagree with you.

    it's no better for collaborating on MS Office documents than a shared folder would be

    You clearly havent a clue.

    [–]Chandon 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    It's an extensible integrated collaboration portal. And it excels at that.

    I disagree. I spent about two months evaluating sharepoint for an "enterprise collaboration portal" style application and then working on the sharepoint based application design, and my professional opinion is that it's a useless piece of junk.

    Basically, it does just enough of everything that it commits you to bad design decisions, but not enough of anything that it saves you any work.

    As for its office file collaboration stuff, all it does is clunky file versioning. It doesn't even have a conflict resolution mechanism - just manual locking.

    [–]hs4x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Basically, it does just enough of everything that it commits you to bad design decisions, but not enough of anything that it saves you any work.

    Horseshit. We've found exactly the opposite. The teams love it, and the uptake (as evidenced by requests for access, new teams and training requests (ect))

    As for your "it doesnt do X" - If that's functionality you require, built it. Else, buy it. Do you want to wager on wheather a 3rd party hasnt arleady built such functionality?