Microsoft’s Next Killer OS is… SharePoint?
Cloud Computing, Microsoft, Technology October 9th, 2008
Reading Mary Jo Foley’s Microsoft 2.0
Instead of being quite so blatant, Microsoft has taken a quieter back route to achieving the same ends via two related technologies:
- Baking SharePoint reliance into more and more of its products
- Requiring users to buy pricey client-access licenses (CALs) in order to use Microsoft’s servers
Microsoft has been basing a growing number of its products on SharePoint technologies to provide basic common services like storage, pub/sub, identity/security infrastructure, communications and collaboration functionalities.
With SharePoint’s BDC catalog and search server it is apparent that Microsoft is targeting SharePoint to serve as an integration layer on top of services and LOB applications in the organization.
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There is no way. Sharepoint is “okay” and it definitely does it’s job, but it’s not going to be the next killer OS… it might integrate well with it, but it’s not going to be the core.
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