For those who think SharePoint is a Mickey Mouse portal,
Or I quote someone today, who says "SharePoint is not a real portal", here are some statistics I emailed internally to change the perception.
The list of SharePoint sites are taken from wssdemo.com. I ran some of them with www.quantcast.com, which tells me monthly traffic and profile of the visitors. I don't know how they get it, but if someone knows of another more reliable statistics, let me know. I don't mind going through the list again.
I went through a demo with another platform. Their portal product, to me, is no different from using asp.net to build a portal, plus 3rd party controls to make it easier to build. While I agree that there are areas where other platform is much better than MS stack, there are also areas where other platform are far worse than where MS was in 2002. (Think VS 2002).
I'm quite sick and tired of hearing people telling me that Microsoft product is not good enough for enterprise. If someone give me the kind of resources and time enterprises spend on a portal of the other platform, I'm sure with that resources, I can make SharePoint perform at least on par!