Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) 2003 provide a unifying, integrated, and extensible technology platform that can meet the collaborative needs of small teams and large enterprises alike. Whether you're generating intellectual property or ensuring that audiences can publish and discover relevant information, the SharePoint platform provides services that can help you succeed.
WSS is a three-tier Web application that's an add-on to Windows Server 2003. You can download WSS from the Microsoft Web site (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/sharepoint/wss.mspx). WSS provides a site framework on which to build team sites that support the sharing of information among users. A WSS team site provides document libraries and lists for announcements, events, tasks, contacts, issues, surveys, and discussions. These libraries and lists are extensible. Although WSS can scale up and out to support the needs of hundreds of thousands of team sites, the real power of the WSS team site is that the users can design and create their own sites to meet their needs. . . .
