Re:Microsoft strikes back: introduces docs for facebook
by mslagh on Thursday April 22, 2010 @11:01AM
(#1285251)
Don't see any reason to switch from google.
"You need a SharePoint server and license in order to collaborate, and either: You need to pay license fees for an on-premise version of Office 2010 or You need to pay an as-yet-unspecified subscription fee."
http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10002712/the-hidden-cost...
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Microsoft strikes back: introduces docs for facebook
by contextfree on Thursday April 22, 2010 @11:20AM
(#1285314)
?
The Web Apps hosted on Microsoft's servers are free (or rather ad-supported). If you want to host them on your own servers, you need to buy various things. I thought Google Docs was the same way?
Re:Microsoft strikes back: introduces docs for facebook
by ratsbane on Thursday April 22, 2010 @11:13AM
(#1285292)
Good grief. $41,000 for a full set of CALs to run SharePoint. Does anyone know if that's per server or for a given site?
I understand Microsoft's motivation in trying to sell this but it's hard to fathom the reasoning of anyone who would buy it.
Re:Microsoft strikes back: introduces docs for facebook
by dpritchett on Thursday April 22, 2010 @12:07PM
(#1285471)
Sharepoint 3.0 was free to anyone with a Windows Server 2003 license. Once you build out that infrastructure a bit the marginal costs to upgrade into MOSS (SharePoint 2007/2010) start to look ok.
I personally prefer more socially focused solutions (e.g. Jive) but SharePoint is making huge strides as both a collaboration backbone and as a document management platform.
Some Fortune 500 companies are now building new intranet apps around SharePoint rather than standalone. There are a number of off the shelf solutions available as SharePoint "web parts".