To Sharepoint Or Not To Sharepoint

It's too difficult to learn and use, says the SharePoint hater. It's an indispensable tool for keeping mobile consultants working closely together, says the lover.

"Can't live With It - Craig Asher, principal, Vital Financial, a small venture capital firm in Bethesda, Md. Craig Asher didn't always look down his nose at SharePoint. When he and his business partner started using the software last year, they were looking forward to being able to easily collaborate and share documents with each other and with their business associates. The problem? There was nothing easy about it.

'We were using SharePoint for about five months, which I thought was long enough,' Asher says. 'My business partner is not extremelyWeb 2.0 savvy and he was just having trouble getting SharePoint to work.'"