“Everything you need is here”

A co-worker of mine just got back from the Webmaster Jam Session and relayed this metaphor for Sharepoint, Microsoft’s CMS/Portal/EBTKS-ware, which we have been evaluating:

Implementing Sharepoint is a lot like building a house. It’s like a friend of yours says, ‘I know exactly what to do.’ And, he drives you to a Home Depot, drops you off at the front door and says, ‘Everything you need is here.’

Paraphrased from Jared Spool

* This post was originally published on September 26, 2007 at http://www.csb7.com/blogs/whyblogwhy/2007/09/26/everything_you_need_is_here

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

— Alfred Hitchcock