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Comment Its The Enterprise (Stupid) (Score 1) 182

by its a trappist! on Thursday August 15, 2013 @05:43PM (#44577903) Attached to: Red Hat CEO: Bring On the Clones

RedHat's success is based on knowing who their real customers are: enterprise and government. Enterprise users can't take the risk of using an unsupported solution, so they are ALWAYS willing to pay the relatively reasonable subscription fees. Same applies to government. CentOS plays well with the rest of the world - those willing to risk running an unsupported operating system. RedHat don't care: those guys are not their customer. CentOS and Fedora both are great training grounds and test beds, but it will be cold day in hell before a Fortune 500 CIO bets the farm on either.

Comment Re:SRSLY? (Score 0, Troll) 371

by its a trappist! on Saturday February 02, 2013 @11:04AM (#42770995) Attached to: Apple To Discontinue Mac Pro In EU Over Safety Regulations

No. I don't. I've owned a MacPro for years and neither myself nor any of my family have ever been maimed by it. Ah, Europe... the nanny continent.

Comment OP: Ok, mobiles suck, what about soft phones? (Score 1) 445

by its a trappist! on Thursday December 06, 2012 @12:44PM (#42204833) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Need a Phone At Your Desk?

The general consensus seems to be that mobile phones are to expensive, have crappy sound quality, invade your privacy / personal time, run out of batteries just when you need them and frequently don't work inside office buildings. Done. I now officially hate that idea. What about soft phones? Not Skype, which apparently has its own list of issues, but things like Lync? Any thoughts on those?

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Do you still need a phone at your desk?

Submitted by its a trappist! on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @07:25PM

its a trappist! writes: When I started my career back in the early 1990s, everyone had a "business phone" phone on their desk. The phone was how your co-workers, customers, friends and family got in touch with you during the business day. It had a few features that everyone used — basic calling, transfer, hold, mute, three-way calling (if you could figure it out). This was before personal mobile phones or corporate IM, so the phone was basically the one and only means of real-time communication in the office.

Flash forward 20 years. Today I have a smart phone, corporate IM, several flavors of personal IM, the Skype client and several flavors of collaboration software including Google Apps/Docs, GoToMeeting. My wife and daughter call me or text me on the cell phone. My co-workers who are too lazy or passive aggressive to wander into my office use IM. My brother in Iraq uses Skype. I use GoToMeeting and its built-in VoIP with customers. The big black phone sits there gathering dust. I use it for conference calls a few times each month.

I'm sure that there are sales people out there who would rather give up a body part than their trusty office phone, but do any of the rest of us need them? Around here, the younger engineers frequently unplug them and stick them in a cabinet to free up desk space. Are the days of the office phone (and the office phone system) at an end?

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