excerpt:
By luring employees into a network, companies hope to leverage their
skills and contacts. But they also hope that all that collaboration
will cut out time that’s now spent mailing documents and e-mailing
comments.
excerpt: SharePoint, the
Microsoft software that lets companies set up MySpace-like profiles,
blogs, and collaborative Web sites known as wikis within the confines
of their firewalls, is one of the fastest-growing server products in
the company’s history. "At first people were slow to adopt this; they
were nervous. But now we’re seeing a bunch of adoption," says Rob
Curry, director of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server software.
Both Microsoft and IBM are using their own offices as labs for their
products.
excerpt: The whole "open"
ethos of the social Net–sharing pictures and music and letting
"friends" know your every activity–goes against the instincts of
big-company chief information officers.
