Comments on: Sharepoint’s Real Competition – Exchange

By: jedpcuk

jedpcuk — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:54:38 +0000

DCO certainly is appealing – its one of the main reasons we have an aggessive schedule for upgrading to D6.1 – the ‘original’ 5.3 DCO being a bit ‘clunky’ (although we did the EDP in the end we did not deploy). We like the idea of ‘drag and drop’ email management, indeed treating email as any other item of content, so using DCO you drop them in the same folders as other content items……

Outlook as the portal anyone ? Email, RSS reading, calendars, contacts and access to your all your content in the Enterprise Content Management system !

By: msillanp

msillanp — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:54:53 +0000

The internal battle is interesting, funnier still when you look back at history. (Yes, Lee. I'm heading back to the '90s again.) See you have to remember that SharePoint had its humble starts as Digital Dashboards . Then someone took that concept too far and you had SharePoint. I can just imagine the Exchange team back in the ‘90s showing off their cute little puppy to the world and then as it grew bigger leaving it in the woods to fend for itself. No surprise that dog's coming back and showing its teeth.

By: lopataru

lopataru — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:16:44 +0000

One time i had to write a paper on the differences between DCO and Sharepoint in their relation to Outlook for a certain business requirement.
One nice topic arised: although you can expose Sharepoint ‘folders’ in the Outlook tree (like in DCO) you cannot drag&drop emails in a Sharepoint folder. This being seen and other issues, we choose DCO.
Going back to your question (although I’m not really Bill), i think the solution is to be able to have both. I can image is extremely easy to expose all Exchange functionality in SP.
Aslo, as i am a person which has Outlook open all day, i would love to have SP inside and seamlessly move emails/tasks/meetings between them.
Come on, it’s not so hard. All you need is a good product manager(s?) with ‘balls’ to spare.