What is SharePoint?

What does SharePoint do? Crossing the barriers of information communication and building an efficient enterprise application platform ArticleAnswered this question.

"The largest commercial information resource is not in a variety of databases with good architecture, but in commercial documents such as Word and Excel files ." -- Jean Paoli (XML architecture designer of Microsoft Office 2003 project)

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Anyone who has used IBM Lotus knows that Lotus is a document-line database. It is designed to solve the problem that traditional databases cannot store and manage unstructured documents. In the OA field, it is added to workflows and other OA support functions, making lotus no one in this field rival. As Jean Paoli said, this field has a large market space. M $ is not silly, and of course it is not intended to give up the market.

Is it directly competing with IBM? No. M $ is very clever and adopts roundabout tactics. The weakness of Lotus analysis is that users must use the lotus management platform to manage documents, which is difficult for users because they are used to the free format of documents such as Word; the Use and Development of IBM's things are complex and difficult for users to adapt to; IBM's things are expensive and many small users are hard to afford. To address these problems, M $ can be analyzed, and the office documents are originally their own world. As long as they can develop a good enough, low-price strategy, it is very likely to win back the market.
The M $ weapon is SPS!