Mart Muller's Weblog

Interesting news about the future of Sharepoint is posted more often. However it's all unofficial, some logic moves will taken regarding Sharepoint and Microsoft Content Management Server. With the introduction of ASP.Net 2.0 and WebPart development, MCMS and Sharepoint are merging more and more. MCMS and Sharpoint becoming one single server product is not unlikely, also taken the Office 12 strategy in mind.

Patrick had a talk last week with Office Sharepoint product manager Mike Fritzmaurice about Sharpoint vNext and although things are not confirmed yet, they do give the impression that the Sharepoint/MCMS story is true. Not unlikely, considering the first “add-on“ for Sharepoint 2003 was the CMS content connector for Sharepoint. Besides that, using Sharepoint Search for indexing and searching MCMS sites is also recommended by Microsoft.

I do wonder what place Commerce takes in this story.  Right now, MSIB is a solution to integrate MCMS, Commerce and Sharepoint, but how is this going to be in the new situation? There isn't much news on the Commerce side at all.

Anyway, it's interesting when thinking about what the changes are for the Sharepoint and MCMS community...