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Re:CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired by gaius on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @12:28PM (#3977305)
You're just not the target market. Corporate types who wouldn't know what FTP was if it jumped up and bit them on the nose LOVE Sharepoint.

What do we need Excel for when we have perfectly good Perl and CSV files, you might as well ask...

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Re:CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired by GFischer on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @01:21PM (#3977587)
To be fair, it is a FTP with permissions and a decent user interface, and plays nice with a Microsoft ecosystem.

Whether that is worth what Microsoft is selling Sharepoint for, well, that depends on the buyer. It also has the "nobody was fired for buying IBM" point (and Microsoft does have decent support).

I still haven't seen an Open Source Sharepoint "killer", though I might not know of it (I had good hopes for Alfresco).

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Re:CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired by edwinnathaniel on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @12:52PM (#3977428)
Don't forget versioning.

So it's both FTP + SVN rolled into 1 feature set under SP umbrella.

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