SharePoint - unbelieving bad

In a blog post Microsoft? announces a plan for 'stop using SharePoint for application development'. This is not one day too early. I have from the very first day I came in contact with SharePoint development criticized SharePoint as a platform for IT applications, it is appallingly bad and buggy, and I have said so, (not always popular among colleagues and managers in the company I previously worked for). Now Microsoft states Sharepoint was stretched far beyond what it was originally intended to do. Indeed true so true, the problem I have with this statement, both MS sales representatives and some MS premium consultants have during the years promoted SharePoint as the platform for small and mid sized applications. This has led many organisations to spend large sums on developing crap applications.

Anyway I (and many with me should) feel vindicated by the MS blog post, and it is a good thing MS is so candid about SharePoint. The question is, should we trust Microsoft now when they claim the successor is a fine platform for applications? I prefer to test the product first. After all SharePoint as an application platform is definitely on my top three list of crap software, unbelieving bad.

P.s. I'm not sure but I think the blog post is from Microsoft, if not disregard I commend Microsoft for being open and honest about the shortcomings of SharePoint.

Are you alive?

I have not checked the status or jobs of my data warehouse, not even checked if someone is fixing broken jobs since almost a month now. This is the longest period I have totally neglected my data warehouse since the start 2001. This morning I checked the twitter account and it seems the data warehouse runs along fine. If someone attending the failed jobs I do not know. I'm told there are jobs that can fail without affecting the operations, so it is probably OK. Why is it ok to have failing jobs? I know about jobs only have input randomly but fails if there is no input. Personally I do not like this coding style, but it is a matter of taste it really does not matter. I assume everything is ok with my Data Warehouse. The tweets look a bit strange, but I have not cared to fix them, and now it's not really my business. After an unusual first half year I will see if the company wants my services at all. If not I might end up as retired. I think I can live with that😏. Now I will go out and sit in the sunshine and read 'Our Mathematical Universe' by Max Tegmark.