iDevFactory.com
I was recently asked by a manager with money to spend before the end of the budgeting quarter: "What third-party products can we buy today that will help us with our operation." The part he didn't say was "that is currently planned three to six months out."
The only one I had used was CorasWorks and that was 2003. While that was a great product, I've never used their 2007 products and I'm not sure they aren't suffering from the Microsoft disease where their "niche" gets rolled into the product sucking all the money with it.
I saw the Bamboo toolset and it helped with AD integration which is a real value ad as far as I was concerned. I recall that 2003 and AD were kind of like the Hatfields and McCoys. For those of you that care, SPS2003 was the Hatfields.
Now, I've seen the toolset from IDevFactory.com. It seems interesting since it's "feature based" and as our 2007 environments get more complex, I imagine we'll be working hard to differentiate the word "feature" from "application" in the minds of our customers.
I'd love to hear anyone's comments about the IDevFactory toolset. In the meantime, I've got to get one of my customers to let me install it and see if I can break it.
I hope everyone is having a Sunny SharePoint Day!
-robot
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