Google Apps for Business (Score: 2, Interesting) by erichill@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 17:09 (#2V3F) Excellent email, Google Drive does all the document collaboration you could ask for including offline access and multiple platform support, great calendaring, chat, etc. It's $50/user/year. You can't even buy a server for that.Google sites will take care of the intranet needs. What am I missing here? Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 18:29 (#2V3H) I was going to say the same. I'd been working for a company that was on google for a couple of years until we got bought. Now it's Microsoft whatever.As a remote user on a Mac, Microsoft blows.Downsides of google:No Gantt/project planning software.Google drive is flexible and unstructured. Sometimes it'd be nice to have a more rigid document layout and enforcement.Really stellar upsides:EmailCalendarGoogle Hangouts (super useful for remote users)Drive has been very useful Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 2, Insightful) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 19:53 (#2V3J) I'm going to keep playing the devil's advocate here, not because I disagree but simply because it leads to more discovery. My current company standardized on a bog-standard Microsoft shared drive, which for lack of curation/management turned into a corporate document landfill. I find Google Drive to be the cloud version of the same. Yes you can store a load of documents in sub-folders and such there, but it doesn't offer more sophisticated features like check-in, check-out, versioning, and so on (as far as I know). Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1, Insightful) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 20:06 (#2V3K) I'm going to keep playing the devil's advocate here, not because I disagree but simply because it leads to more discovery.Offtopic response. But this coincides with my sayings that every forum needs a certain amount of trolls. I have seen more forums die because of a lack of trolls than because of too many trolls. Trolls might individually be disgusting, but can keep threads and discussions alive. And often this leads to new discoveries. We'll see if a devil's advocate is a sufficient troll replacement. :-D Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 20:48 (#2V3M) Maybe a devil's advocate is like a troll who is too daft to post anonymously :) I think you're right. The really sad thing about Slashdot these days is that the trolling is really amateur. A good troll has to be very carefully crafted and quite subtle. These days the level of dialogue is so banal the trolls all look like wankers. Where's the sport in that? Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 21:10 (#2V3P) I don't really care when on /. the members troll. It is troll articles where I draw the line. And /. has far too many of those for quite some time. I lost every bit of respect I once had for /. as platform itself.
Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 18:29 (#2V3H) I was going to say the same. I'd been working for a company that was on google for a couple of years until we got bought. Now it's Microsoft whatever.As a remote user on a Mac, Microsoft blows.Downsides of google:No Gantt/project planning software.Google drive is flexible and unstructured. Sometimes it'd be nice to have a more rigid document layout and enforcement.Really stellar upsides:EmailCalendarGoogle Hangouts (super useful for remote users)Drive has been very useful Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 2, Insightful) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 19:53 (#2V3J) I'm going to keep playing the devil's advocate here, not because I disagree but simply because it leads to more discovery. My current company standardized on a bog-standard Microsoft shared drive, which for lack of curation/management turned into a corporate document landfill. I find Google Drive to be the cloud version of the same. Yes you can store a load of documents in sub-folders and such there, but it doesn't offer more sophisticated features like check-in, check-out, versioning, and so on (as far as I know). Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1, Insightful) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 20:06 (#2V3K) I'm going to keep playing the devil's advocate here, not because I disagree but simply because it leads to more discovery.Offtopic response. But this coincides with my sayings that every forum needs a certain amount of trolls. I have seen more forums die because of a lack of trolls than because of too many trolls. Trolls might individually be disgusting, but can keep threads and discussions alive. And often this leads to new discoveries. We'll see if a devil's advocate is a sufficient troll replacement. :-D Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 20:48 (#2V3M) Maybe a devil's advocate is like a troll who is too daft to post anonymously :) I think you're right. The really sad thing about Slashdot these days is that the trolling is really amateur. A good troll has to be very carefully crafted and quite subtle. These days the level of dialogue is so banal the trolls all look like wankers. Where's the sport in that? Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 21:10 (#2V3P) I don't really care when on /. the members troll. It is troll articles where I draw the line. And /. has far too many of those for quite some time. I lost every bit of respect I once had for /. as platform itself.
Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 2, Insightful) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 19:53 (#2V3J) I'm going to keep playing the devil's advocate here, not because I disagree but simply because it leads to more discovery. My current company standardized on a bog-standard Microsoft shared drive, which for lack of curation/management turned into a corporate document landfill. I find Google Drive to be the cloud version of the same. Yes you can store a load of documents in sub-folders and such there, but it doesn't offer more sophisticated features like check-in, check-out, versioning, and so on (as far as I know). Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1, Insightful) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 20:06 (#2V3K) I'm going to keep playing the devil's advocate here, not because I disagree but simply because it leads to more discovery.Offtopic response. But this coincides with my sayings that every forum needs a certain amount of trolls. I have seen more forums die because of a lack of trolls than because of too many trolls. Trolls might individually be disgusting, but can keep threads and discussions alive. And often this leads to new discoveries. We'll see if a devil's advocate is a sufficient troll replacement. :-D Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 20:48 (#2V3M) Maybe a devil's advocate is like a troll who is too daft to post anonymously :) I think you're right. The really sad thing about Slashdot these days is that the trolling is really amateur. A good troll has to be very carefully crafted and quite subtle. These days the level of dialogue is so banal the trolls all look like wankers. Where's the sport in that? Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 21:10 (#2V3P) I don't really care when on /. the members troll. It is troll articles where I draw the line. And /. has far too many of those for quite some time. I lost every bit of respect I once had for /. as platform itself.
Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1, Insightful) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 20:06 (#2V3K) I'm going to keep playing the devil's advocate here, not because I disagree but simply because it leads to more discovery.Offtopic response. But this coincides with my sayings that every forum needs a certain amount of trolls. I have seen more forums die because of a lack of trolls than because of too many trolls. Trolls might individually be disgusting, but can keep threads and discussions alive. And often this leads to new discoveries. We'll see if a devil's advocate is a sufficient troll replacement. :-D Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 20:48 (#2V3M) Maybe a devil's advocate is like a troll who is too daft to post anonymously :) I think you're right. The really sad thing about Slashdot these days is that the trolling is really amateur. A good troll has to be very carefully crafted and quite subtle. These days the level of dialogue is so banal the trolls all look like wankers. Where's the sport in that? Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 21:10 (#2V3P) I don't really care when on /. the members troll. It is troll articles where I draw the line. And /. has far too many of those for quite some time. I lost every bit of respect I once had for /. as platform itself.
Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 20:48 (#2V3M) Maybe a devil's advocate is like a troll who is too daft to post anonymously :) I think you're right. The really sad thing about Slashdot these days is that the trolling is really amateur. A good troll has to be very carefully crafted and quite subtle. These days the level of dialogue is so banal the trolls all look like wankers. Where's the sport in that? Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 21:10 (#2V3P) I don't really care when on /. the members troll. It is troll articles where I draw the line. And /. has far too many of those for quite some time. I lost every bit of respect I once had for /. as platform itself.
Re: Google Apps for Business (Score: 1) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-17 21:10 (#2V3P) I don't really care when on /. the members troll. It is troll articles where I draw the line. And /. has far too many of those for quite some time. I lost every bit of respect I once had for /. as platform itself.