Worth investing knowledge in Sharepoint?

Question

I'm a newbie in Sharepoint and need some help.

Is worth investing knowledge in Sharepoint from today and one year forward when there's a new version will be available in the market?

Answer 1

Yes. First, we are still a ways out to the new version. Also, the transition to the new platform will not happen immediately when the new version is launched. It will take about a year or more for people to migrate to the next version. Case and point: A lot of companies are just staring their migration to 2010. There will be plenty of opportunities with the previous (current) version. Secondly, as others have echoed, a lot of internals remain the same. What you learn today, will benefit you moving forward.

I highly suspect that the next version will heavily leverage more of a client side development model in which you see less back end ASP.Net forms development and more javascript and odata type of work. Microsoft already mentioned that the next version of share point will embrace HTML5.

Answer 2

Yes, as a lot of the concepts that held true from the days of 2001 are still applicable. Some things will change, new things will come aboard, but the core underlying things that make SharePoint are not likely to. So yes, it is worthwhile investing into knowing SharePoint.