Patrick Tisseghem on SharePoint Announcements from PDC '05
Patrick Tisseghem has some good reflections on the SharePoint announcments coming from the PDC.
“Some will see new challenges and opportunities, others see there current solutions melt away as Microsoft is delivering that specific functionality out-of-the-box. It is probably time for many companies doing SharePoint stuff, to reflect on where to go from here. My advise to them is not to panic. Yes, Microsoft is filling up the gaps and to me, there will be less demand from customers to extend WSS or SPS in a horizontal way to deliver something that ‘Microsoft should have done’. Good example of this in the current version is item-level security or security trimming of the UI. To me the real opportunities are in the building of vertical solutions on top of the WSS platform.”