Thursday, March 29, 2007

Preserve us from Sharepoint

It's a web server.

In a world blessed with Zope, Plone, wikis, and other content management systems, I'm amazed that anyone would pay money for Sharepoint. They should pay you to adopt it because of the hideous negative value that is vendor lock-in.

It's a web server.

It will cost a fortune to customize to your needs. Just as any other system will. Only you will continue paying for it until you die. Then someone else will pay for it. Unless they decide you are moving to whatever else they want to sell you. Then you will pay for that whatever else until you die, at which point someone else will take over paying for it.

It's a web server.

Ooh, it integrates with our hopelessly vendor-locked-in authentication system? (AD) pam_ldap, folks.

It's a web server.

It's a web server that will be bought by people who look around for Microsoft products to buy, rather than needs to address. Because if you'll buy that, you'll buy dog turds in a can so long as it comes from them.

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