Disclaimer

Michael Sampson has published his white paper titled “The 7 Pillars of IT-Enabled Team Productivity: The Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Analysis” that he has been working on based on his previous “SharePoint for Business” framework.

As usual it has drawn the attention of some as being a total shoot down of the capability of SharePoint. What I am referring to is the article titled “Study Takes Aim At SharePoint’s Shortcomings” and Michael’s response to various others.

If one reads Michael’s paper one should come to the conclusion that it highlights areas for positive improvement that can and rightly so should be done to match Michael’s 7 pillars framework on IT enabled team productivity and collaboration and NOT that SharePoint is useless and no one should ever touch it. There is more than enough proof in the current market that SharePoint when adopted on it’s merits has proven to be one of the technologies that used within context to what your needs are can be a definite winner.

I think Michael has done a great thing by highlighting to ISV’s and Partners and MSFT itself that there is room for improvement. And I believe that the famous “Microsoft, Change the world or go home cartoon is appropriate”

Or should I say “SharePoint, change the world or go home?”