firstlight01's Journal: Microsoft SharePoint goes to war with US Army

According to Bill Andad (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1497.html) the concept of a soldier with a battery powered radio hiding in the bushes and reporting back to base for enemy troop position information is, other than in the movies, long gone. Instead, it would seem, the US Army is relying upon a Microsoft SharePoint portal over satellite instead. Andad writes: "The US Army South has successfully deployed Corpora's iOra Application Acceleration software alongside its Microsoft SharePoint platform to provide improved in-the-field access to operational information and collaboration with their main command post at Fort Sam, Houston. The network acceleration solution has enhanced the army's ability to coordinate its humanitarian, theater security co-operation and anti terrorism operations in Southern and Central America according to a press release from Corpora that I received today. The Army's SharePoint deployment relies on this acceleration technology to provide soldiers with round-the-clock access to operational information wherever they are, sending each other links to pages they have created on SharePoint. This critical information can be more safely stored, kept more up to date and made more accessible to whoever needs it than it was when the military relied on that old technology of email."