SharePoint Products Shuffled

Forms Server, a special edition of SharePoint Server for publishing forms, has been discontinued, and SharePoint Designer for SharePoint site development is now free. The moves reflect cost-cutting in the Business Division, which produces SharePoint Server, and could signal reduced development effort for some SharePoint features. Separately, Microsoft has outlined the license migration options for customers of the discontinued PerformancePoint Server product, some features of which will find their way into the next version of SharePoint.

Forms Server, SharePoint Designer Leave Product List

As of Apr. 1, 2009, Microsoft stopped selling both of the following products.

Forms Server. Forms Server (formally Microsoft Office Forms Server) is a limited-function edition of SharePoint Server 2007 that allows users with the InfoPath forms design client to publish forms directly to a server and enables users to fill out those forms with a browser. InfoPath forms publishing is also available in the full version of SharePoint 2007, but the feature requires the more expensive SharePoint Enterprise Client Access License (CAL).