Another version of SharePoint? Actually SharePoint 2010 is pretty impressive.

So this is my first blog post...ever!  Yeah, I'm pretty excited that I have finally taken the plunge and decided to write about something, so here goes...

I have been working at imason for over 6 years now and in that time my main technology focus has been around SharePoint.  I was lucky enough to attend the SharePoint 2010 conference in Las Vegas and have to say I came away being thoroughly impressed at what I had seen over the 4 days.  If you had asked me prior to attending the conference what I thought about SharePoint 2010 I would have replied "Oh great, another version of SharePoint that I need to get up-to-speed on".  Today, however, I am pretty excited about the new features and improvements in 2010 and I think it will make for some great potential solutions once it is released. 

The SharePoint conference itself was fantastic.  The sheer size (around 7500 attendants) and number of sessions (over 250) was very impressive and the sessions I did attend were very informative and went smoothly considering it is a beta product.  I think the thing that stuck out to me the most was that for 2010 Microsoft focused on fixing the issues that developers and business users routinely complained about in MOSS 2007, providing a wealth of additional features that really solidifies SharePoint as a great development platform,  and building in a lot of the social computing concepts we see in the public domain.  Microsoft did a great job of focusing on what was new and improved which helped me understand the key differences between MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010.  One of the things that can be overwhelming with a product the size of SharePoint is having the knowledge that something exists so that you can leverage it when needed and the conference was great at providing those details.  At some point, you will probably be asked the question, "Why should we move to 2010?" and my hope is that over the next few weeks and months my posts will help provide some insight into helping you answer that question.