SharePoint in plain English

Wonder of wonders - silverlight required - something else I'm trying to avoid (along with Bonjour and other gratuitous wonder apps pushed by vendors). So I'm never going to find out what SharePoint is - will I be able to sleep?

www.youtube.com/watch

I still dont get it.

How is it different from a network folder with proper access set.

Boldly providing functionality Lotus Notes provided 15 years ago! Woo-ee!

@sam: *IF* my impression that SharePoint is similar to Notes is close to correct, then server admins could create team databases and set up several groups specific to each database including database-specific quasiadmin groups. The members of that group would be regular users, but they'd have permissions to be able to add and remove other users from the database's other groups. In other words, Notes for sure and likely SharePoint could treat groups of users as if they were documents themselves, and some mere users could be granted permissions to alter other groups. This is useful for access control.

Harlan... All that you mentioned is possible on a simple network folder by a network Admin.

The Admin can create "SuperUsers" who can add/remove access to people/Groups....

So What I dont get is WHATS NEW ! What is Share point doing that I cant be done with present ...sorry 10 year old technology...

Thank you for posting on Youtube!

@sam - I see many articles on the web for superuser on Unix-like systems, none specifically for Windows. On Unix-like systems, superuser is either root or in the same group as root, so has broad administrator privileges.

Any urls for articles specifically on Windows Server admins creating 'superuser' accounts which in turn have custom privileges? You mean using ACLs?