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So Tony and Janus over at cmswatch are hawking thier "report" on the upcoming Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and once again bizarrely miss the point and are engaging in buzzword rubbish:
"Microsoft has tried to go 'enterprise' in the impressive breadth of MOSS capabilities, but not necessarily in their depth and scalability"
Yeah right - so MOSS doesn't have depth and can't scale - Oh well - perhaps these folks should maybe actually take the time to educate themselves on the product and hey even push the boat out - install it - to find out the truth.
I've seen the CMS report, and some of it can be considered garbage - but I still think MOSS 2007 Web Content Management has some catching up to do. MOSS as a portal platform rocks.I have been working with MSCMS and Sharepoint for years now, and I'm not too happy about the marrying of the two. MSCMS was not a bad product - it just needed a little guidance and a few added features.I've implemented a lot of CMS products (Interwoven, RedDot, Tridion, Stellant) and I have to say that MOSS WCM is not only going to get dinged by CMSWatch, but also Gartner and Forrester - again. I can go on for days about what I don't like, but the competition is at times cheaper and faster to implement! My client is tripping because their MOSS 2007 implementation is nearly $250K in licensing for a test, stage and 3 load balanced production servers - compared to ~$140K for Tridion, RedDot and Interwoven Team Site.Microsoft really needs to engage a real-interactive company that knows CMS and deals with the big boy CMS implementations to get some product insight in the WCM space.