Infomally, Most Staying on MOSS 2007

At DataLan's SharePoint Winter Expo in New York City yesterday, about 70 people turned out to hear about SharePoint 2010, and to hear from a number of software vendors that augment Microsoft's platform. Tony Smith of DataLan, who expertly moderated the event, asked for a show of hands to indicate how many people were using MOSS 2007. Almost every hand in the room went up. Then he asked how many people were even looking at SharePoint 2010. Only a few scattered hands went up. (I had heard a lot of this is Las Vegas at Microsoft's show as well.) MOSS 2007 was a dramatic upgrade from 2003, adding a whole host of new features and capabilites that turned SharePoint from a document management repository to a true enterprise platform. SharePoint 2010, we've come to learn, is not as focused on new features and capabilities as it is on collaboration and business productivity. So it's not surprising that people who have made big investments in MOSS 2007 would stay where they are. In fact, many are now just getting into areas that extend SharePoint beyond its out-of-the-box capabilities, so I'm sure they won't be migrating off their software perhaps until SharePoint 2012 (Microsoft has said it wants to update the software every two years).
-- David