About 80 percent of businesses are expected to be using SharePoint by 2010, according to Gartner. That means for the Microsoft channel community, SharePoint is a potential goldmine, a repeat revenue generator, and customer relationship builder if you get it right.
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Organizations around the world have been adopting SharePoint rapidly as their collaboration platform of choice. In fact, SharePoint usually becomes so popular that organizations quickly want to expand its use beyond the corporate firewall. That's because businesses, besides sharing information via SharePoint internally, also want to share it externally, by providing vendors, business partners, and clients access to their SharePoint sites. IT is then faced with the challenge of making these sites securely accessible from the Internet.
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