Compared to the Competition
SharePoint and the solutions from MOSSHosting.com present customers with a clear choice about data ownership, information security and privacy. Customers always maintain the choice to take possession of their data in a useable format. While it is difficult to make an accurate comparison between purely hosted and hybrid model software and services, SharePoint stands out from the crowd. Unlike many derivative Web 2.0 technologies which use open source software, advertising driven business models and a shared platform SharePoint stands alone as a choice which can be deployed hosted, federated or on-site.
It is important to understand the differences between derivative Web 2.0 technologies that were designed for the consumer market and SharePoint which is designed for business use with more than one deployment mode. The chart below highlights some of the often overlooked differences between SharePoint and derivative Web 2.0 technologies.
