Infoworld: The Future of Lock-in

by Alex Limi — last modified May 22, 2007 07:42 AM
Documentum, Vignette, etc. have been locking in customers for years with their respective repositories. But Microsoft is more dangerous, because SharePoint is integrated with Office, Windows, SQL Server, and every other Microsoft product.

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This is one reason that companies should be extremely wary about using SharePoint, in particular. It is your content, not Microsoft's. If you want to keep it yours, you need to keep it in a secure but open place.

There are a range of great open source repositories out there (Alfresco, Apache's Jackrabbit, Plone, etc.). This is where you want your content stored, because each of these offers easy ways to get the content in and, more importantly, out.

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May 17, 2006

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