For three years now the Microsoft SharePoint team in Redmond have been developing new and very exciting functionality for the SharePoint platform. SharePoint 2010 will essentially be the fourth major version of the platform since the first version shipped in 2001. SharePoint Server is the fastest growing server product Microsoft has ever developed, with over $1Bn in revenue and over 100 million users and growing! Last week in Las Vegas at the SharePoint conference over 7,400 delegates showed up - almost double on the last conference - and that in a down economy. I think that statistic speaks volumes about SharePoint and it's meteoric rise.
Our webcast attracted close to 1,000 registrants and we had 327 attend on the day, which is pretty darn good for a webcast! At the webcast we asked the following question and got these results:
Will your organization move to SharePoint 2010 in the calendar year 2010?
- No – we always wait for SP1 19%
- No – the move to 64 bit hardware is too much for us next year 5%
- No – we just do not have the budget 18%
- Yes – we always go with the latest version 8%
- Yes – we need some of the new capabilities 15%
- Yes – we are already planning for SharePoint 2010 32%
That is 55% in the "Yes" camp. I am sure our stats are skewed as the people who showed up had some interest in SharePoint 2010 - but still 55% - Wow!
What are the coolest new capabilities? What are the most exciting developments? What are the biggest changes? What does this all mean for your SharePoint plans? What will the new 2010 platform enable you to do with ease that you can not do today?
Watch this webcast and find out the answers to these and more questions.
Watch webcast in IE on original Blog posting