Microsoft Community Night
So I went to a community night hosted at the Microsoft Innovation Center here in Amman with my friend Bander which he told me was interesting. Even though I knew I was going to be the only non-Microsoft guy there I thought I should check it out.
The session was about using Silverlight with Sharepoint. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with Silverlight’s capabilities. I only thought it was a Flash competitor, but it turned out to be more than that.
At the end of the session the host had a Sharepoint 2007 best practices book to give away. The organizers decided to ask a question and give the book to the person who answers it.
The funny thing was that I was the only person who knew the answer, and I was given the book. That’s when Bander jumped saying “Don’t give him the book! Don’t give him the book! He’s a Linux guy, 2 weeks ago he didn’t even know what Sharepoint is” 
Anyways, fun night, and I’d like to play with Sharepoint and Silverlight and see what they’re capable of.
I was wondering when that post will come up?! =p
Do you have an Open Source compitetor for SharePoint?
I’ve seen some Open Source document management systems, haven’t played with any of them though. But none seems to be as feature rich as SharePoint