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RE: Office/SharePoint and Google Apps: Skinning the same cat?

pbuonora@... 24th May 2010

@crazydanr@... Sharepoint is a Rube Goldberg machine. Lots of mice running around in there to make things work. If you want to do anything beyond the most basic you need to get into visual studio and learn a whole new set of APIs. It is not something the common .net developer can jump into.

On top of that you have to buy both the core CAL and the enterprise CAL to get a lot of the functionality such as Infopath forms, integration with your corporate databases, embedded spreadsheets. It can get very expensive. That doesn't include the specialized knowledge needed to keep the system running.

http://www.realsoftwaredevelopment.com/why-sharepoint-portal-server-is-terrible/

http://jopx.blogspot.com/2008/03/sharepoint-as-development-platform.html