Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint Compare’

If you haven’t already heard about the Wave (not the ocean wave but “Google’s Wave”) then have a look at this video

Google Wave combines the functionality of LinkedIn, messenger, emails, doc management system, face book. It looks great on the video. For developers it’s a good opportunities to start building applications (pretty much like iphone apps). So if you already have an Iphone app you should consider building something for Wave.
Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group said, “Wave represents an effort to displace Microsoft entirely, but has a higher probability of failing completely and is also consistent with Google’s strategy with apps.” See full article by Jennifer LeClaire

How does Google compete with SharePoint, only time will tell - but it seems like Wave is more for internet users then for intranet users. Wave is very user friendly and pretty but SharePoint is tidy in a sense that you can organize documents in a folder while wave is more focused on information flow.

There are lots of questions and issues regarding Wave that needs answering eg
•    What are the security policies and how to enforce them in Wave?
•    How a company implement Wave?
•    Can businesses have local deployment?

From my experience companies and business are reluctant to put information on the net. It will take businesses a long time to adapt technologies like wave. People are still struggling to adapt SharePoint and trying to get rid of “Reply All”, CC and BCC.

So time will tell how this ‘Wave’ of technology is going to affect us… Hopefully in a productive way.