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SharePoint SP2 Out, Oracle Lurking

Service Pack 2 and development kits for SharePoint Server and SharePoint Services came out late last week (just in case you missed them). SharePoint is massively popular, but it's not alone in the collaboration market. Oracle is at least trying to ramp up a competitor with Beehive. We'll see how that goes.

Posted by Lee Pender on May 05, 2009


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