“Sharepoint, I hate sharepoint especially 2003″
As some of you might know I got a new job a couple of weeks ago. Its a KTP a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, in theory a pretty nifty idea. You take a bunch of academics and put them into industry projects. Then you give them some inside on management and let them transport the bleeding edge research in a commercial environment. As I said sounds nice.
And to make all the materials ‘accessible’ everything is stored in the cloud. But this cloud is called Sharepoint, MS Sharepoint 2003.
And what happens when I was trying to login:
Please note: The KTP Portal has been developed using MS Sharepoint 2003 and in order for users to make use of all available features please use Internet Explorer version 6 or 7, and not Firefox or Safari. The portal does not currently support Apple Macintosh users.
WTF. I think it is ridiculous that a government funded project is forcing participants to use a certain product when there are alternatives that do not require anything and are free by the way. I was directly all over it and I bed I am the first who has the problem. And nobody will give a shit because we all know:
Never touch a running system
Please guys redo your course work on requirement engineering and find out if you have considered all your potential usergroups. Hint MS windows is not the only operating system.
Why sharepoint, why??
November 13th, 2008 - Posted in Geek Stuff | No Comments »












