On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:33:51 +0000, "Geoff Schaller"
<geoffx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>A VO site is cheap and nasty and has absolutely none of the smarts
>possible with a Sharepoint site. You can also do 10 times in half the
>development time.
>
Geoff,
I can't tell about the development time, you might well be right.
These kind of out of the box products always attract end user who
think they can now build their system themselves instead of buying it
from you or me. Sometimes they can, sometime they get stuck in the
process because they can't solve certain issues which we usually can -
yes, with VO.
And also, yes, we did invest quite some development in it. But now, we
have a proven, stable and fast program which we can easily adapt to
whatever comes up, much more than we could ever do with Sharepoint.
I do strongly disagree with your conclusion that a VO web program is
"cheap and nasty". In fact, our web applications are extremely
reliable and so far we have been able to facilitate almost everything
we wanted. I doubt if Sharepoint would have given us the same options.
And about the speed: one of our applications is used by dealers of 3
of our customers in 3 continents. Especially in the USA, a surprising
number of dealers do not have the kind of DSL speed you and I have.
Your 6 and my 8 seconds are many times their 25 seconds for the
luckiest...When our application then appears in just a few seconds, it
makes the difference between acceptance and rejection!
I always wonder why you plea for using the best, the fastest and the
most modern, while a serious lack of performance is apparently not a
concern.
So in short, my advise to Rob is, if you think Geoff is right and you
can get Sharepoint to do what you want in a couple of hours, AND speed
is not a concern, then why not use it. But if you want to expand it
beyond the limited options of Sharepoint, speed is a concern and
initial development time can be invested, you can create superior web
products with VO.
Dick
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