I can add to the answers already given but my focus is on the way it looks in other browsers, the look is clean because of the CSS principles applied and you will not see a difference that is night and day like during the old Netscape and IE 4 handling of DHTML and tags like blink and tabled sets.

It will look the same for most of the functions. I run four version 2.0’s outside of MSU for profit, but I don’t do design for those; I built them and secure them though. I do run MOSS 2007 (V3) that ties in great with MS office 2k7 and allows for RSS feeds the alert feature per list or right down to a thread. It has a built in WIKI starter, and has a good search feature. It can be ran stand alone or in a web farm environment with a good sql backend. It has its own backup utility to assist with recovery should the need arise and has all the versioning, workflow and upload/download features available now.

It allows you the admin to let users create groups with in the site/farm and they can do their own content management and invite other users, if they are not on our current network we can make those users an account to use. The final piece I like is the double stage recycle bin. Should a group delete something we go in as admins and restore from the master recycle bin.

I can see many great uses for it and I need to mention that 40 administrative templates are available now that cover everything from helpdesk to inventory tracking, a set of templates for higher ed are being designed currently and I can not wait to see those. You can make custom lists all day if you want to have some kind of forms or surveys made right out of the gate.

Data base tie ins, and other sites are also linkable like ANGEL.

Too bad there are way too many Microsoft critics out there who haven’t updated their experiences with testing out the newer products in a strong lab to compare what they remembered to now.

Timo.

Timo Vasquez- D.S.S. Team Member

Michigan State University

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From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Troy Murray
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Collaboration Option "D" - Other

Joe,

I remember SharePoint coming up before. I used, to some extent, the first to versions of it and found it complicated and lacking, however, I've heard much more positive responses based on the current version.

Two questions that come to my mind with regard to SharePoint that I'd like to know is:

1.) Does it require Active Directory?

2.) How does it "look" and "work" with non-Microsoft browsers?

Perhaps you could answer those questions?

-t

On Dec 13, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Joseph Mesterhazy wrote:

Well really the first thing that came to my mind was Sharepoint. It does pretty much everything that was discussed, wikis, versioning control, document management and collaboration, etc. I’m boggled why it wasn’t discussed, really.

Joe

Joe Mesterhazy

UNIX Administrator, RHCE

MSU Department of Radiology

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From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Troy Murray
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:07 PM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] Collaboration Option "D" - Other

This morning at the MSU IT Exchange we were shown three collaboration tools, vBulletin, SWAP and Angel. During the voting we were asked which one we'd choose, along with an option "D - Other". As I remember, there were a number of votes for "D - Other", but when it was opened up to suggestions there was only one, PHPvB I believe.

This lead me to wonder why "D - Other" was voted so much; was it because what was seen in the three solutions wasn't liked, because it was felt there is a better solution but not sure what it is or felt there is a better solution but were hesitant to mention it during the session?

Just curious what your thoughts were.

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