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Will SharePoint Server 2010 Put (fill in any given ISV here) Out Of Business? Nothing’s Impossible, But Probably Not.
Mike Fitzmaurice
Let’s get the easy part out of the way, the specific case of Nintex…
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 shipped in November 2006. Work on what we now call Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 began months before that date. I didn’t leave Microsoft until the end of May 2008.
Make no mistake: the day I left Microsoft, I put up a “Chinese wall” around part of my own head, and I continue to regard my ex-employee NDA as a sacred trust. But ask yourself: woul [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 8th '09 |
Visio 2010 Can Design Workflows. Good.
Mike Fitzmaurice
Apparently, the technical preview copies of the Office 2010 client apps don’t involve a nondisclosure agreement. As such, blogging has commenced in earnest about the fact that Visio 2010 will have workflow design capabilities. Wictor Wilén has a pretty good post on the subject, actually.
We’ve gotten a couple of inquiries about this already. Actually, we get asked about what we’re doing for 2010 all the time, but these posts spurred two new questions:
Does this mean I [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 6th '09 |
Oh, The Perils/Joys of Limited Information
Mike Fitzmaurice
Trickles of information are coming in throughout the blogosphere on Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, etc. I thought I’d add a bit of perspective from my days on the SharePoint team…
For the last three releases of SharePoint technology, there were early adopter programs. In fact, for independent software vendors (ISVs), there were extra-early adopter programs so they could sort through, adapt, and enhance their products (or even create new ones) based on what was coming down t [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 5th '09 |
Swedes Singing Star Wars
Mike Fitzmaurice
We’re here at the Swedish SharePoint/Exchange Forum, and it’s cocktail reception time, and they’ve got an a Capella quintet here for entertainment (they used to be a barbershop quartet but they added a guy and updated their repertoire to get chicks).
They’re singing — I kid you not — the jazz tune from the bar in Tatooine in Star Wars. And they’re lamenting that they still don’t get chicks.
This is weird. So I’m happy. [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 8th '08 |
Farewell, Patrick
Mike Fitzmaurice
In case you haven’t heard elsewhere, Patrick Tisseghem passed away this past Wednesday. He was teaching a class in Gothenburg, Sweden, had a heart attack, and died shortly thereafter at hospital.
I’m here in Stockholm right now because I’m speaking at the SharePoint/Exchange Forum this Monday and Tuesday. But I flew in two days early, and Patrick was planning to stay in Sweden a few extra days so we could hang out here this weekend. Stockholm is a gorgeous place, but to me i [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 5th '08 |
Do The Math: Third Party Add-Ons Are Your Friend
Mike Fitzmaurice
Part of my job when I was in SharePoint Marketing at Microsoft, and most of my job when I was a competitive/technical subject matter expert for Microsoft’s field account teams, involved helping map product capabilities to customer requirements. Frequently, that meant supplementing the out-of-the-box product with either (a) some customization work or with (b) the aid of a third-party add-on product.
Guess which of those two was often more readily received by salespeople (although not neces [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 25th '08 |
Wow. Last-Minute Refactoring. Releases That Take Weeks or Months instead of Years. I’m Definitely Not in Kansas Anymore.
Mike Fitzmaurice
One for the “things I don’t miss about Microsoft” list: having everyone acknowledge that a problem exists, having everyone agree that it’s serious and will result in customer dissatisfaction, that something must be done about it, and nevertheless not be able to do anything about it for up to three years (if that).
I don’t want to be unfair about it. When you’re a giant software company and many, many interdependency issues exist among your own products (let a [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 25th '08 |
Welcome Joel!
Mike Fitzmaurice
We’ve secured a healthy chunk of Joel Oleson’s time over the summer to help us quickly revise and enhance Nintex Reporting 2008. This will be good. If we’re really fortunate, we might try to coax Joel into something more permanent. This is, after all, a very nice place. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 30th '08 |
Holy Spit — They Actually Built It…
Mike Fitzmaurice
When I was part of the SharePoint teams, people asked me for advice all the time. Sometimes, they even took it. As it turns out, Nintex took a lot of it.
My stance of staying the heck out of the SharePoint databases is a matter of public record. I wasn’t kidding then, and I’m still not kidding about it. It’s a bad idea. That having been said, a frequent question that came up in response involved how to report on what’s going on within SharePoint farms.
You’ve [read].
Posted: Fri, May 30th '08 |
Just who the heck *am* I?
Mike Fitzmaurice
I’m Mike Fitzmaurice, Vice President of Product Technology at Nintex, a company that makes products that augment Microsoft SharePoint technology. That’ll do for the moment. Visit www.nintex.com if you ‘d like to know more about that.
I spent the last ten and half years of my life at Microsoft, working in one capacity or another on information worker solutions, be that in messaging, collaboration, portals, content management, application aggregation, search, workflow, business i [read].
Posted: Fri, May 23rd '08 |
Sorry, but this will have to be a trade secret-free zone…
Mike Fitzmaurice
As much fun as it it could be using this space to leak fun tidbits of what may/may not happen in the next releases of SharePoint technology in particular and Office technology in general, it can’t happen. It should come as no surprise that I signed a non-disclosure agreement with Microsoft the day I was hired way back in 1997, and as such much of what I know (or don’t know) about What Is Yet To Come will have to be placed in a cognitive lock box.
The best you can hope for is the fact [read].
Posted: Fri, May 23rd '08 |
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