Talk about pedalling an old story about SharePoint Portal Server 2001. Sure, SharePoint can become uncontrollable if you: 1. ignore access control 2. turn off version control 3. don't impose quotas 4. don't bother defining content types 5. don't encourage metadata capture 6. don't define audit policy 7. don't turn on retention scheduling 8. don't leverage the content organizer 9. don't leverage legal holds 10. well, you get the idea, don't define any form of governance strategy Of course, if you take the same approach with iManage, Documentum, FileNet etc then you've got the same effect... as well as an environment that no one wants to work with. I've just been to SharePoint Conference and it seems to me like its time the industry woke up to the value that SharePoint adds and dropped the FUD. It also seems like its time that companies took some accountability for treating SharePoint in the same way as any other ECM platform and put an appropriate governance plan in place before deploying.