SharePoint

Anyone have any experiences using Microsoft SharePoint? Good? Bad?

Someone loaded a blade server at work with SharePoint and myself and a couple of others were invited to try it this afternoon. We have been working with IBM WebSphere Portal Server for the past few months, and this SharePoint was a true pleasure to try - what a refreshing difference!

Hope to hear anyone else's comments that has worked with SharePoint!

fv

I've built and deployed several large Sharepoint Farms for my company and our clients and along with configuration I've also done programming for custom WSP's and I absolutely love Sharepoint. It's great for intranet websites and global level sharing of information and files.

Thanks for the feedback, Direhit. After just a few hours of looking at SharePoint I came away with a very positive impression. So these "web parts" that appear to be aspx page fragments - they strike me as very much like the idea of j2ee portlets. So we are free to write our own and aggregate on a page I take it?

thanks,

fv

Yes, you can deploy the DLL's for the web parts globally in a WSP package and then add them on a per page basis.

Ok - thanks for the info. So Sharepoint would have a catalog of such "web parts" that I can mix and match as I please on pages, and they would be configurable on the fly?

And this takes .Net framework 2.0 + some suitable IDE?

thanks,

fv