Compete on merit
We decided months ago that we're gonna bend over backwards to interop with everyone. We want you to be able to open Tidepool to gather photos from your camera, open iPhoto to remove some red-eye and rotate a few, open Tidepool to do some tagging, open Photoshop Album to see those tags, etc. We'd rather compete on merit than hold our customers hostage.
Big Fractal Tangle: all-hands interop
I honestly don't believe that lock-in on formats/non-interoperability is a good long term strategy.
I'm still struggling in the search for a good contact/calendar/project management tool that works for multiple people and is cross-platform. We're trying out Basecamp. I had given it a try quite some time ago, and felt mediocre about it. It seems to be working out better this time, especially the way it integrates with iCal (tasks and calendar events) and having your own custom RSS feeds for notification.
Silver Orange's Intranet looks really good, too, but the online demo doesn't give me enough of a feel for how well it might work. And of course I haven't had the time to ask for a more complete demo.
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Boris, how about an update on
Boris, how about an update on Basecamp? Did you guys keep it?
Troy Angrignon. http://www.troyangrignon.com
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Boris,
Have you looked at dotProject? It's a sourceforge hosted project that is pretty stable. I've been using it for some jobs. Read up at: www.dotproject.net.
Brad Gibson
dotProject
Actually, yes, I had looked at dotProject. We poked around a bit and it seemed quite good (the best project management system for non-technical users, as opposed to phpCollab, which is great for internal consulting use). BUT, we kind of got a bit depressed by the fact of yet-another-open-source project that was 80% there, but had a few minor bugs and such.
It would be nice, just once, to just pay someone for something that just works.
Somebody else in our office actually took the test install and started using it with a very non-technical group, including porting over a bunch of old information, and they seem to be responding to it very well. Rather than try and run multiple solutions, we're just going to just use it, and try to prevent our itchie fingers from doing a bunch of custom fixes to it.
Sometimes "good enough" is just that. So perhaps the top level post should be called "Compete on good enough"?