Does SharePoint fit these specific needs?

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Our company has a mixed environment of OS and at least 50% are Mac
users.

We're rebuilding our company's intranet and are looking for a flexible,
extensible portal framework and we're trying to determine if SharePoint
is right for us.

The document sharing capabilities that seem to be a core feature of
SharePoint aren't among the features we've been asked to include. What
we HAVE been tasked to build is a fun, customizable portal site with (I
almost hate to say this) MySpace-like features.

* The ability for each user to create a customized home page and add
whatever content they'd like to it (from RSS feeds to the weather in
their area to...)

* The ability for all registered users to see profile information on
other users. This profile information could include some information
from ActiveDirectory as well as other custom user-entered information.

* The ability to post documents that others would have read-only access
to (Case studies, Sales pitches)

* Discussion Forums

* A calendar feature (but not tied to your Outlook calendar)

* The ability for our designers to 'skin' the site any way we want (any
number of columns, heck maybe use Flash or Ajax as an interface to some
aspects of the system)

* We have over 70 offices in almost 50 countries with almost 2000
employees. We'd like custom content for each office and certain shared
content common to all offices.

We're also looking at DotNetNuke and some open source PHP packages and
trying to determine what's right for us. We're an ad agency and the
boss wants something fun and cool to reflect our company's culture.

Is SharePoint a good fit for what I've described? Can we use it as a
framework and add MySpace-ey type features and skin it to make it look
non-corporate? Or, since we don't need the document-sharing features
and are 50% Mac users anyway is it overkill for our needs?

Thanks for any input.

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