Sharepoint 2003 technology and enterprise architecture
I found this excellent Smart Solutions article titled “Evolutionary SharePoint” thanks to a post by SB Chatterjee. I copied excerpts and sent them to my boss to stress the importance of the migration we've just started of moving our intranet from Sharepoint Server 2001 to Windows Server 2003 Sharepoint Services.
There's no migration tools available to move from SPS2001 to WSPS2003, so using drag-n-drop and the OLE DB Provider for Internet Publishing (MSDAIPP) we'll be doing an in-house migration. I'll post details as the migration action heats up. I've implemented a data layer architecture with an integrated WSS-SQL XML approach which has been online for some time, so the migration will work on top of that. Theoretically...
But I wanted to mention Lamont Harrington's thoughts on collaboration and applicatoin integration, which I thought were very well articulated and with which I definitely agree. From Lamont's excellent post:
"Microsoft is looking to leverage the investments [businesses have] made in their products and reduce the current application “silos“ that exist within their current product landscape."
And "Microsoft's view of the enterprise is to provide a unified platform that has features that solve multiple business problems, not create a product for every problem encountered."