Martin Reid
mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk
Fri Oct 23 13:28:55 CDT 2009
I wonder if and how they will implement the real time editing? Really well! I have been using it for some time and I like it and will be rolling it out next year internally. I watched a Google docs video today and it was really impressive, quick, multiple authors and very slick. Just goggle Office Web Apps to see some screen shots and video. We use SharePoint because we want total control over everything. Office is built to work with SharePoint and it does it well. SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 does it even better. We have 30,000 users on it now and its very slick. Saying that it keeps me busy and it is a huge bit of software to manage plus its infrastructure but it fits well into a total MS solution. basically from the Desktop to the Internet in a controlled and secure environment which we have total control over. We also have workflow, archive, records management, audit, single sign on, version history, integration with Excel Services, Forms Services plus some new items in the new version. We have enterprise level Search almost out of the box plus a ton of other stuff we have not even turn-on on yet like presence management, voice and video etc. For example research between researcher in any University in the world. We build a site, add in the users form the AD and they are up and running in about 5 mins. Again all within our control. We can also front almost any large scale database with it and we can then present information from there to the end user via a single interface. There are of course many issues and a huge learning curve for an install of our size but for us its worth it. We run 4 front end web servers, 4 application servers and four clustered SQL 2006 Databases on a 10TB SAN. Martin /gustav