Plone NGO Mailing List Christian Aid go for Microsoft over Open Source
Peter Hollands
peter.hollands at dale.co.uk
Wed Nov 15 18:42:26 UTC 2006
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:11, Matt Lee wrote:
> Although it may not be elegant, email is still a very good way to
> allow you to work offline, and as they say, if it isn't broken, don't
> fix it
But I think the point is that email is broken - in the sense that it is a
poor tool from the point of view of collaboration within an enterprise.
For example, Data stored on personal drives - with no attempt to show version
history (wiki) or enterprise searchable taking into account authorisation.
Sole use of email usually means a dramatic loss institutional memory - which
for most NGOs with high attrition rates (short term volunteers, 2 year
assignments) is an issue to address.
The right answer to the online / offline architecture is to invest resources
into getting everyone online and to design our systems for the online world.
Offline is a decaying market.
:-)
Peter
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