Microsoft goes Web 2.0 with Sharepoint

October 17, 2007 By

This is the big news I talked about the other day. Microsoft is partnering with Atlassian and Newsgator. Richard MacManus has the details.

Funny story: Atlassian is an enterprise wiki used all over the place. It’s built on Java.

Atlassian’s role in this? They are building a Sharepoint connector. Why do that? After all, Sharepoint has its own wiki service?

Cause Atlassian’s is better and Microsoft’s customers were asking it to support Atlassian’s.

Anyway, I’ll have a video up with Atlassian talking about this in a few minutes.

UPDATE: Here’s Atlassian’s blog talking about the connector.

UPDATE2: Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, reminds people that his wiki product was partnered into Sharepoint last year.

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  • http://christianburns.wordpress.com/ Christian Burns

    What about for those of us that don’t have an IT dept to install sharepoint? We have, just cant use it.

  • http://christianburns.wordpress.com/ Christian Burns

    What about for those of us that don’t have an IT dept to install sharepoint? We have, just cant use it.

  • http://www.branddialogue.com/ Eric Weaver

    Christian: try a hosted Sharepoint service like Sherweb (they’ve got great reviews – I use them for shared Exchange). http://www.sherweb.com/sharepoint-hosting

  • http://www.branddialogue.com Eric Weaver

    Christian: try a hosted Sharepoint service like Sherweb (they’ve got great reviews – I use them for shared Exchange). http://www.sherweb.com/sharepoint-hosting

  • http://www.joshuamaher.com Joshua Maher

    Good step in the right direction, although partnering with one or two wiki providers is such a small step. I’d like to see more partnering with full fledged social media companies to enable blogs, wikis, doc sharing, forums, degrees of separation, etc. Microsoft still has no solid offering in this space…

  • http://joshuamaher.com josh maher

    Good step in the right direction, although partnering with one or two wiki providers is such a small step. I’d like to see more partnering with full fledged social media companies to enable blogs, wikis, doc sharing, forums, degrees of separation, etc. Microsoft still has no solid offering in this space…

  • http://christianburns.wordpress.com/ Christian Burns

    I kind of just want Google to release JotSpot and get on with it.

  • http://christianburns.wordpress.com/ Christian Burns

    I kind of just want Google to release JotSpot and get on with it.

  • http://phuser.com/ George Black

    Some interesting ideas on how to integrate a Wiki there. This is the kind of thing we are working on with Phuser – don’t send your team to del.icio.us or Slideshare, bring the services to your team and into the project and private. Our first integrations, or in MS speak ‘connectors’ will be out next week.

  • http://phuser.com George Black

    Some interesting ideas on how to integrate a Wiki there. This is the kind of thing we are working on with Phuser – don’t send your team to del.icio.us or Slideshare, bring the services to your team and into the project and private. Our first integrations, or in MS speak ‘connectors’ will be out next week.

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