[dba-Tech] Question on collaborative choices

Martin Reid mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk
Fri Oct 23 13:44:28 CDT 2009


Jim

>From what I see especially with MS they are betting the farm on SharePoint tightly coupled with Office. The system we have is actually over engineered just in case but it does leave us a lot of room for growth. SharePoint farms are easy to grow just stick another server in. We are actually looking a Virtual Machines for a lot for this. All the devs work on VMs.

Martin


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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence [accessd at shaw.ca]
Sent: 23 October 2009 19:40
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Question on collaborative choices

That sounds like an excellent working system and it seems to be able to
expand out to virtually any size. Now it looks like there are going to be
many choices and the market has really opened up.

Jim


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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Martin Reid
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:29 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Question on collaborative choices

 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



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