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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.

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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".

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