[thehigherlife]

Have you ever had to support sharepoint? I don't know if I'd consider it an excellent product.

[rbanffy]

I think "excellent" is nowhere close to any adjective I would use to describe it.

You may consider it good, as long as you have never, ever used anything more sophisticated than a network share to manage your documents.

[msie]

Reminds me of the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." SharePoint works with so many MS products and there is such a huge eco system that goes with it. I think it's a safe bet for many companies that already rely on MS products. I would also give a lot of credit to the MS consulting/salesforce for many sales of that product.

[dmor]

It makes $1 billion per year

[philwelch]

Lots of crappy products make $1 billion per year, especially enterprise products.

[blasdel]

As bad as Sharepoint is, most of its competitors are much worse and also make huge piles of money.

[rbanffy]

Nothing can be much worse than Sharepoint.

edit: there are categories of software that have representatives that are more dysfunctional than Sharepoint. Still, Sharepoint is pretty much the worst document management/intranet package you can find.

[philwelch]

Enterprise software can be surprisingly awful. blasdel's story is the best, but I remember being astonished that you could actually pay for version control software. The fact that said version control software didn't even have atomic commits but did, interestingly enough, run on its own proprietary file system was almost a Kafkaesque punchline.

[blasdel]

Sounds like you've never been forced to use any of the Oracle Applications webapps!

[rbanffy]

They may be bad, but come on, much worse than Sharepoint?