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We literally spend millions on licensing Share Point to do what WordPress can do much better and easier. I'm not saying we're going to start writing everything in PHP, but being able to experiment with WP could affect the bottom line in a big way.

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It might be a personal thing, but if I had to choose between working for a customer A with SharePoint and customer B with WP, I wouldn't hesitate to choose customer A, even with SharePoint 2007.

May I ask why?

PHP and the overall quality of average WP code?

Honestly, I think I'll take 'average' php code over 'average' .NET code, I just did a 18 mo. stint at a .NET enterprise environment after 8+ yrs of PHP(Drupal, so maybe the bar is higher, not saying it is, but maybe).

I don't have any substantive evidence for this, but I suspect you'd see very different characteristics among people who work on SharePoint and, say, MVC/WebAPI.

Vastly. People who develop sharepoint tend business focused people or ex IT people.

People who develop in MVC tend to be developers.

That explains why all the information you can find about SharePoint development is so muddled I guess.

I started out as a PHP web developer and started developing in .NET when it was released. At this stage, I've been developing applications in .NET for 15 years. Whenever I have to look at a PHP project or ASP classic project, the code quality is usually much worse than other languages. ASP and PHP make it really, really easy to do things wrong.

How can that be any worse than the average quality of sharepoint code?

Static typing and C# disallow many of the typical PHP code patterns I have seen in the wild.

There are a lot of creative ways around strict typing in c#, I spend my days dealing with them. I just finished working on a section that managed to combine the speed of c# with the expressiveness of assembly...

I would look at sitecore. It's still .net, but it is closer to wordpress in that you wouldn't necessarily build a sharepoint in it, but you can build pretty much anything else in it.

Disclaimer, I work on the UX/UI side of a company that focuses solely on sitecore.

I only had a project with Sitecore, v6.5 at the time, and really enjoyed using it.

Just the overall replication of Windows desktop for the backend management UI seemed a bit extreme. :)

Yeah it was a bit odd for me too, coming from PHP and node land. Most of the editing should be done in the experience editor.. which is fairly WYSIWYG in context editing. Concrete5 still does that part of it better. Sitecore has a lot of engagement value scoring and content a/b testing built into it.

Thanks for sharing this, but what exactly does this provide that WP doesn't to justify the cost?

I'm not familiar with the product, but surely leveraging existing expertise has some value.

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