SharePoint

Top Five WPC Lessons

1: Sales of Business Productivity Online Suite are sad.  First clue? The 250 free seats offered to WPC 2009 attendees. People applauded that news but some of the more um–realistic–VARs in the crowd said it’s may be the only way to get some actual users online. VARs hate BPOS because Microsoft owns the customer relationship and VARs can’t co-brand it or bundle it with their other services.  HATE it, 18% margin the first year or not. Continued »

Renamed Groove to go into SharePoint Pro Plus license

With the Sharepoint 2010 release, Microsoft will take the Groove client, newly renamed SharePoint Workspace, into the SharePoint Pro Plus license and out of the enterprise SKU. Tom Rizzo director of SharePoint talked up the news today at the SharePoint Technology Conference in Cambridge, Mass. the move means those Pro Plus licensees will get their Groove.

It’s unclear if a standalone Groove client license will still be available going forward.

Microsoft pitches SQL Server hard to Oracle accounts

Microsoft reps are out in the field pushing Oracle database shops to move more of their workload to SQL Server.

Part of that push is a SQL Server “site license” that would merge individual SQL Server transactions for various departments into one central purchase. Indeed, many financial and other shops are Oracle at the core, but use a lot of SQL Server at the periphery. Microsoft would like to change that. Continued »

Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server: Know your options

Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server brings pitfalls around every turn.

One of the biggest decisions that can determine your ultimate success or failure in implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is how you distribute the deployment. Luckily, our sister site SearchWinIT.com is offering some guidance from SharePoint expert Joel Oleson, who just published a tip about the three distribution models for implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server: centralized, regional and distributed.

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