SharePoint Adventures

My present company is a Microsoft shop and, although we have a very small Notes setup, we decided to use SharePoint as a collaboration tool. So far we have WSS 3.0 up on VMWare, and plan to go to the full MOSS as soon as we have the data center question resolved (more on that in another post). Obviously each product has its weaknesses and strengths, and it has been very interesting comparing the way things are done in SharePoint with the way things are done in Notes. Here are a few little things that I have found in SharePoint that I really like.

A Thought on SharePoint as File Server 2.0

A while ago Ed Brill had an article in his blog which mentioned SharePoint being described as File Server 2.0 (a phrase coined by Sean Burgess). This got me thinking - originally Vista was going to have a new data storage and management system called WinFS. I had even read somewhere that WinFS was going to be very much like Lotus Notes in the way it handles data. Then in June 2006 Microsoft shelved those WinFS plans. Did they pull the plug because SharePoint was going to fill that need? Basically could they make more money packaging the functionality as SharePoint that they would building WinFS into Windows? Of course there is no way to know one way or the other, but the phrase File Server 2.0 certainly did get me thinking.