In November 2008, Microsoft made its announcement that it would begin selling a web-based version of Sharepoint in 2010. With Google apps already making serious inroads into the SMB and Enterprise market, one has to wonder whether it's too little, too late. Being late to the dance does not even take into account that the web version will be inferior to its client server version. By business model necessity, this has to be so because of Microsoft will not allow its 100,000 plus licenses fall to the wayside.

This may sound like the beginning of a lame joke, but... did you ever hear about the story of the woman who bought her elderly mother a new mattress and after throwing out the old mattress, the mom remembers that she had stashed in her mattress $1 million cash? That's exactly the what I heard this morning on the radio as I was driving to work this morning.