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Have we lost the SharePoint vision?
"... But where are all the great web parts, tools and add-ins for SharePoint end users? ..."
As a developer, here's some reasons off the top of my head
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too hard to develop/test/deploy in a SPS/WSS enviroment. Frankly, I've done next to nothing with the new version of SharePoint, but I was all over the old Digital Dashboards. For example, SPS costs real $$$ and WSS requires Windows 2003 server. Sure, it can be done with VirtualPC and the like, but that's even more effort
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too different from ASP.NET. Hopefully, with ASP.NET 2.0 and the next version of SPS built on top of that, a lot of this will go away. As a developer, it would be really nice if I would write a web part to a single API and have it work everywhere.
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doesn't fit with Microsoft's "
smart client" vision. SPS/WSS is an
intranet application, behind the firewall, you don't have to be as concerned with every oddball system that might come along. Now I know Microsoft wants to use HTML so they can sell SPS into the big companies sill using Netscape browsers...but .NET and the thick client is where all the action is (OK, ASP.NET is pretty cool too). Look at Avalon/Areo, Longhorn, etc. If Microsoft had a "thick client" version of SPS (that would be presumably easier to setup), I think you'd see a lot more "web" parts.
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SharePoint discussion lists: What's needed to make them work?
I'd like to see much tighter integration with Outlook; as one of my co-workers said this afternoon "I always have Outlook running".
Outlook is just begging for better SharePoint (and RSS) integration (and yes, I know about http://newsgator.com). For example, on the RSS front, I could specifiy a folder as my "Blog root", each sub-folder would be a different category; I then post items to these folders which publishes them to my blog (via some background upload process).
SharePoint discussions and Exchange Public Folders seem to have a lot in common - with neither one doing a very good job for "discussion" purposes.
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