I'm with the haters... For the short time I was part of a team that supported Sharepoint it was nothing less than a constant pain in the arse. The company had absolutely no idea how to utilize the product yet we spent many long days and nights on the phone with Microsoft support to patch it, fix it and keep it running. The mindless IT director who kept driving the project to roll out Sharepoint couldn't even tell us why the company purchased it or how the company was going to use it, yet he kept plowing forward blindly.

I do not recall the version we supported but it had 7 SQL Server databases in the background. I never found out whether it's true or not but someone told me the reason behind the 7 databases is Sharepoint was not developed as one product, rather there were 7 different teams working on 7 different components for the product and each component had its' own database. Can anyone support or shoot down this theory?