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Re:Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer by phmagic on Monday June 25, 2012 @04:11PM (#4158491)
This might be blasphemy, but why not turn Sharepoint into a platform for the enterprise that developers can create software like Yammer for instead of snatching up these enterprise software companies for billions?

I've used and implemented Sharepoint. It's software that looks great on paper (or slide deck) with many bullet points about "integration" and "business requirements", but it's an absolute nightmare to use and deploy well.

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Re:Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer by damoncali on Monday June 25, 2012 @04:27PM (#4158569)
I know a fellow who, while working at MSFT a few years back, proposed this very thing. Nobody bit.
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Re:Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer by chris_mahan on Monday June 25, 2012 @07:23PM (#4159277)
because it would make the servers ever slower?
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Re:Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer by calydon on Monday June 25, 2012 @08:33PM (#4159495)
Isn't that what Azure is all about? I don't know for sure. That's one of MSFT's classic flaws, too many options, too many platforms, too many ephemeral products.
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