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Re: My home office works better than my office

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On 2014-03-15, Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:55:11 +0000, RS Wood wrote:
>
>> From the «conference call in my skivvies» department:
>> Title: My work-from-home setup's better than the office. It's GLORIOUS
>> Author: StorageBod Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:56:07 -0400 Link:
>> http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/11/
> its_choking_the_life_out_of_me/
>> 
>> And I pay less for top-notch gear than my employers. Good, innit?
>> 
>> Storagebod  I’ve been fairly used to the idea that my PC at home is
>> substantially better than my work one; this has certainly been the case
>> for me for more than a decade. I’m a geek and I spend more than most on
>> my personal technology environment.…
>
> Indeed. I only have three PCs in my office at work...

This article resonated with me, which is why I posted it.  Until
recently my office consisted of your standard (blah) Exchange server +
outlook accessible over VPN or by Blackberry, with some Sharepoint
internal stuff and the occasional website using other technology.   They
moved us to Windows Cloud and have had trouble with authentication,
certificates, and uptime ever since.  Office 365 is the ugliest piece of
software I've seen in ages: flat as a pancake and unusable in all sort
of ways.  O365 also integrated poorly with Blackberry for reasons I'll
never understand, so that's gotten wonky too.

Meanwhile, it's smooth sailing back home, with a mix of Macs, Linux, and
a FreeBSD server, a couple of centralized databases, scripted workflows,
on-site and offsite backup, a NAS at the center of it soaking up
people's stuff and serving up movies for ipads, Nexii, and the Roku in
the living room.  It's all been so easy and so interesting.

Back at the office, if you want to fill in your timesheet you need to
use an app that requires a specific IP address (OK, I can understand
that) so I need to Citrix in over a crappy bandwidth connection, only to
find the Citrix image hasn't been updated to O365 etc etc etc etc.  It's
a nightmare of incompatibility.

The author of this article writes: vendors hide behind a web of
complexity.  I believe that fully.  When my office doubled down on
Sharepoint it made most of our intranet useless from the user's point of
view.  Other, easier solutions exist (a wiki would've been nice).  And
to get sharepoint talking to exchange or whatever requires you to
essentially buy in, whole hog, to the Windows ecosystem because they
can't sell you just part of it (they do'nt want to, obviously, but they
also can't: it just doesn't work unless you by the entire flotilla of
crap software).

If I open a business I'm going for a good IMAP/groupware provider,
Alfresco and a wiki on the intranet, and a bog-standard Apache server
using a couple of custom templates.  I'll be able to replicate all that
complicated stuff my office put in place, for a fraction of the price.

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My home office works better than my office RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-14 10:55 +0000
  Re: My home office works better than my office Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-15 12:37 +0000
  Re: My home office works better than my office Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-15 13:58 +0000
    Re: My home office works better than my office RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-16 16:09 +0000
  Re: My home office works better than my office Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-16 18:09 -0700

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