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Is SharePoint 2010 Relevant?

“I recently had an email discussion with some of the guys I met at the Best Practices Conference last August about what conferences we would be attending this year. In the course of the email trail the subject of the various conference agendas came up and all 5 of us felt like all the conferences that had an agenda posted at that time were very heavily slanted towards the 2010 product.

While I certainly understand that it poses problems for some of us (and probably a lot of other people out there in the field as well). I work in an environment that probably won’t even consider moving to 2010 before the 2nd half of 2012 at the very earliest. The other guys in the discussion were all in a similar boat. The dilemma we all face is how do we justify the cost of attendance and travel to a conference that focuses on a technology we are not planning to adopt any time in the near future.

“I know you speak at a lot of SharePoint Saturday Events as well as attend and speak at a lot of the conferences. Are you hearing any concerns from attendees about the push towards 2010? Are the conference organizers taking the situation I describe into consideration when planning their events? What are the thoughts of other potential attendees in the community?”

I’ve stated it publically and I’ll say it again here: I think that most people should keep their head down and concentrate on the 2007 environment. Most rollouts won’t happen at least for a couple more years. Getting distracted with all the noise on 2010 is just that, a distraction.

I’ve caught fire for this opinion, but I’m standing firm: SharePoint 2010 will not be relevant for most people for at least two, if not three years… and you can quote me on that.