The former, once their requirements for interoperation and coexistence are captured, may be more willing to miss team meetings and keep up via notes, minutes and email. That s about right. The rule, as always, is First do no harm. We might well see some real, near-term progress in such areas as publishing events, scheduling meetings and basic calendaring. There will not be the portal, there will be many competing portals.
People don t so much resist change as they resist regression in the name of progress.
The web cannot do workflow, a very important piece of the IT puzzle. What we need most are standards for the exchange of information. The notice is too short to be able to get this level of commitment of time and personnel. I don t buy the first premise, that this team can cover the waterfront. We can t cover the waterfront, we need to do triage on the intended use cases and applications now .