[p4] Perforce and Sharepoint

[Robert Cowham]

Sharepoint certainly isn't at end of life as far as MS is concerned! 

2007 is out and it is a key product for the future I think.

Robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamison, Shawn [mailto:sjamison at ciena.com] 
> Sent: 16 November 2006 15:07
> To: Robert Cowham; busterrey at speakeasy.net; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: RE: [p4] Perforce and Sharepoint
> 
> We just yanked everything out of Sharepoint and into Perforce.  
> I was given the reason that Sharepoint was at end of life but 
> I can not verify it at the moment
> 
> Anyone else?  
> 
> 
> -Shawn J>
> Babs/Perforce Admin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Robert Cowham
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:05 AM
> To: busterrey at speakeasy.net; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Perforce and Sharepoint
> 
> I looked at Sharepoint a while back and it could be 
> configured to use Perforce to store versions.
> 
> Note sure what the latest state of play is though and how 
> easy this is.
> 
> It is certainly the approach I would be looking to take though.
> 
> Robert 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> > [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> > busterrey at speakeasy.net
> > Sent: 15 November 2006 21:09
> > To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> > Subject: [p4] Perforce and Sharepoint
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Does anyone on this list have any experience with Sharepoint? 
> > Recently a group in my company has suggested using Sharepoint for 
> > managing our engineering documents as well as documents 
> from marketing
> 
> > and customer service. I don't know much about Sharepoint and was 
> > hoping someone might have an insight or two on how it compares to 
> > Perforce's functionality.
> > 
> > Our engineering team uses Perforce for SCM and Team Track as our 
> > defect tracking tool. I've been asked to comment on whether that 
> > combination can do the same things that Sharepoint can do.  I've 
> > taking a quick look at the MS web site, and it looks like there is 
> > quite a bit that our current tools could do in terms of running a 
> > document control system, but I did want to hear if anyone had an 
> > experience with both tools.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew
>