Hi Guys,

 

Any SharePoint admins/users out there? need to ask a few Q's

 

Rich

Yip,

 

Whats up ?

Blimey , that was quick...

 

I have lately been looking at Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS 3.0) as a solution to a lot of issues here at work, it is complemented by MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007).

 

Now along comes Sharepoint 2010, lots of good comments, etc..However, What does it actually replace , ? WSS 3.0, MOSS, neither??, What do i use now considering WSS 3.0 was Free and MOSS was Pricey.

 

Cheers

 

Rich

Sharepoint Services is for server 2003 and MOSS is the payed addon for it.

 

Sharepoint 2010 is the newer edition of MOSS but will only work on server 2008 or higher.

 

And its needs to be a 64bit system.

 

Sharepoint 2010 also has functions to allow the new version of office to publish directly from within the office 2010 suite

 

Far as i Know Sharepoint 2010 is a replacement product for sharepoint services and the MOSS product but its pricey.

 

I recently got a quote from dell on a open license and sharepoint 2010 costs £1747 plus vat.

 

Then you need to pay for CALS costing about £33 plus vat for each person using it.

 

and the open license is per year too, so come year two you pay all over again.

 

thats the way our account manager in dell explained it to me.

 

 

Alot of money if you just want to use it as a Intranet.

 

Lee

plenty of info on wikipedia about sharepoint :

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SharePoint

if you do wanna just use it for an intranet then just install the service pack 2 version.

 

it can be installed on server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9FB41E51-CB03-4B47-B89A-396786492CBA&displaylang=en

Thanks Jaikai, just stumbled on some info, The replacement for WSS 3.0 is Sharepoint 2010 Foundation...

 

Another product to throw in the mix..

 

Rich

mmm, learn somethin new every day.

 

Never new there was a free version of Sharepoint 2010