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01-22-2021, 02:50 PM | #31 | |
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For a large enterprise, we're literally talking 10's of millions of dollars in savings when you figure in hardware, licensing, maintenance, security, and support. It's significant enough to shake up the market significantly. That being said, I work on fed gov a lot and they still use MS. Money is no object for them. |
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01-22-2021, 02:56 PM | #32 |
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01-22-2021, 03:06 PM | #33 | |
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01-22-2021, 03:21 PM | #34 | |
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I'd much rather use the free Microsoft stuff than the other options, personally. |
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01-22-2021, 04:25 PM | #35 | |
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01-22-2021, 04:44 PM | #36 | |
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Believe it or not, one of the big drivers right now is collaboration. Sharepoint + Office is a freaking disaster. Overwrites, lockouts, version control, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Google Docs just plain work. You can have 3 or 4 people editing the same doc in real time and no issues. |
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01-22-2021, 04:47 PM | #37 |
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Oh and speaking of collaboration, MS Teams is ****ing awful.
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01-22-2021, 04:59 PM | #38 |
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01-22-2021, 05:01 PM | #39 | |
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There are enterprises out there with 40K home office workers using Google docs because Sharepoint simply doesn't work with that kind of setup. |
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01-22-2021, 05:02 PM | #40 |
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And for the record, I personally HATE Google. I'm an Apple guy myself.
But professionally, I've seen what works and what doesn't. Google is rapidly closing the gap and Microsoft is pricing itself right out of the marketplace. |
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01-22-2021, 05:03 PM | #41 |
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01-22-2021, 05:08 PM | #42 | |
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We've dumped our entire file server at this point, and it's been fine. It does help that we're a small office of relatively tech savvy folks, so it's easy to train people on where to find stuff. That would be considerably more difficult with a ton of people, some of whom should be featured on those Progressive commercials. |
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01-22-2021, 05:27 PM | #43 | |
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So yeah, scale of the operation has a lot to do with it. In a large organization, MS has a lot of issues. It just doesn't scale well. |
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01-22-2021, 05:27 PM | #44 | |
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01-22-2021, 05:28 PM | #45 | |
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We use primarily WebEx and Bluejeans but also have experience with Teams, Zoom, GoTo, and several others. Teams hardly ever works well enough. WebEx tends to be the most reliable. We've moved several Teams installations to other platforms. |
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