Learning something new is always a fine way to go. And this way, you'll be around to pick up the pieces when Sharepoint doesn't live up to customer expectations.
The then pro-MS IT manager convinced an internal customer that "Notes can't do that" and told them that SP could. Two years later after massive cost overruns and a product that didn't work, I'm making the changes in Notes. SP was a bust--from the servers to the ap itself (which was built in another tool because SP doesn't really program). Even though the dev, qa and prod servers were set on the same equipment by the same people, every time the ap was pushed from dev it failed in some different, mysterious way. Fixes that were done 2-3 pushes ago suddenly were broken again. A document never made it successfully through the approval process. Needless to say (especially in this economy), the client wasn't happy.
So, not only am I again working on this ap (and making the client extremely happy), but I have 3 new projects to work on. The IT dept is again looking at Notes as a low-cost, highly productive platform for internal aps. BTW, that manager is no longer here.
Learning something new is always a fine way to go. And this way, you'll be around to pick up the pieces when Sharepoint doesn't live up to customer expectations.
The then pro-MS IT manager convinced an internal customer that "Notes can't do that" and told them that SP could. Two years later after massive cost overruns and a product that didn't work, I'm making the changes in Notes. SP was a bust--from the servers to the ap itself (which was built in another tool because SP doesn't really program). Even though the dev, qa and prod servers were set on the same equipment by the same people, every time the ap was pushed from dev it failed in some different, mysterious way. Fixes that were done 2-3 pushes ago suddenly were broken again. A document never made it successfully through the approval process. Needless to say (especially in this economy), the client wasn't happy.
So, not only am I again working on this ap (and making the client extremely happy), but I have 3 new projects to work on. The IT dept is again looking at Notes as a low-cost, highly productive platform for internal aps. BTW, that manager is no longer here.