Sunday, April 26, 2009

Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2010

First of all, thank God for the change in name. I was oh so disappointed when they included Sharepoint in the Office family. We should make them promise us they will stick with this on for longer then one version.

It's normal for a maturing product to have name changes, but Sharepoint is now a full grown, dependable application. So, please stop re-branding it.

Here are the 2 official sources of the news:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx

As a personal note, I wish they had more to tell us about the new product than just a name change.

Here is extract from SharePointBuzz.com, about the possible features that Sharepoint 2010 might have:
"SharePoint 14 might have:
  • SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP but better integration and bigger
  • The server software will be announced as 64 bit only
  • Silverlight Media web parts
  • Better accessibility and cleaner code generation
  • Backup/Restore/Rollback and Snapshot backups with virtual load balancing
  • Near automated build and replace
  • Claims-based authentication
  • Possible inclusion of InfoPath style web-based editor - since Office 14 is allowing for some applications to be web-based with limited functionality. Why not integrate some of those into SharePoint vNext
  • SQL tables-like behaviour for SharePoint lists
  • Custom filters won't be necessary to index and extract metadata from ODF and PDF files
  • jQuery and SharePoint vNext "
Here are some of my wishes for the new server:
  • Integration with Micrsoft's CRM and ERP products (not through BDC)
  • Integration with BizTalk
  • URL ReWriting features
  • Audit for more then documents, like audit of site administration and customization.
  • Records management that respects the industry standards a little bit better.
Maybe you could add some of your wishes?