on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:13:03PM -0500, Kirk Strauser insinuated: > On Thursday 2004-06-24 03:47 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > dude, i totally would, but this one is not under my control -- my > > company uses yahoo IM to do half of our work, and i don't think > > they're open to switching. > > Ouch! That's not a great situation. > > > i'll propose it to my boss, but people can be surprisingly > > resistent to change ... > > Here's how you suggest it: "Boss, there's a great solution that we > can use for free, and it gives us complete control over our > messaging system. It's secure because our information never leaves > our network unless we want it to, and we can put free encryption on > it so that messages from salespeople out in the field can't be > intercepted by our Internet company." -- Kirk Strauser
yeah, the thing is, he knows about all of this. he'd like to switch,
he just can't handle helping everybody convert.
so i took matters into my own hands. i'm having a small group of us
(10-15) download gaim and other clients, and sign up at gabfest.net
(thanks a lot, jamin!), for a proof-of-concept; we'll hopefully
migrate to our own server soon. i told him about this, and he got all
excited about involving developers in the IT side of things (we're a
smaaaaaaall company, you see) ... looks like the wheels are in motion.
ahh, all those little lightbulb icons down my gaim buddy list make me
happy ...
thanks, all!
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