Funny everyone in the community, least everyone I read that’s responded, has slammed Mike’s article on what SharePoint is lacking, as well as his frustrations. The first one I saw was Paul’s response, which prompted me to comment on it (both on his post and my blog).
Then Bil piped up… with a good rebuttal.
Now I see Arpan who’s on the portal team in Redmond, post a good critique of the article. His reaction to reading the “mishmash of technologies” point (where he said he almost laughed out loud) was similar to mine.
I was thinking about it more this morning… show me a product that uses one technology. The goal isn’t to use one or as many as possible in a product/project, but to use anything that will improve the performance, achieve the requirements, and meet the needs of the product/project. And VS.NET, C#/VB.NET, ASP.NET, CSS, HTML, and XML are a “mishmash”??? I’m still chuckling.
Hey Mike! How’s the pure ASP.NET project going? What? You’re adding CSS? Damn, that’s going to be one complicated thing to maintain!!! You’re calling a web service too? Wow… YOU DA MAN! <still laughing>