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Old 12-01-2012, 02:05 AM   #284
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Originally Posted by SeaKing View Post
My God man!
That is worse than when I was seriously dating 4 women.
I was divorcing 1 but not sure about it, engaged to another and not sure of it, and two more I was juggling in case I changed my mind, and of course was still on the look out.
SeaKing:

Can you be "seriously dating" a woman you're divorcing?

;-)

Yeah, it's a rumble in the bumble around here, but we haven't found anything else that really "makes that dog hunt," as they say. I looked at MS Dynamics, for a CSR system, which I thought, "well, cool, I can integrate that straight to a Sharepoint system," right up to the point that one of MS's "partners" told me--I swear, I am not making this up--that they wanted $6K (yes, six thousand buckeroos, not pesos) for installing our TWO EMAIL ADDRESSES. Now, I'm as flexible as the next person, somewhat--and I have a healthy regard for the capitalistic rights of anyone to earn a buck, but six thou? I literally started laughing on the phone with them, and told these two bozos who were trying to tag-team me that they'd been playing with OPM for far too long. That I was a small business, not bloody IBM. The manual for Dynamics is about 1500 pages long--all to do nothing but set statuses on various communications and send canned emails.

The Dynamics system is actually sales-oriented, which isn't what I was seeking--I wanted something more industrial-strength in terms of handling our masses of email--but the $6K was to "make two email addresses work" and install a browser-based version of Outlook (Outlook360). I mean, seriously? SIX GRAND? Oish. For 6 thou I'd put on rollerblades and run the damn messages up and down the halls. The whole point was to have a web-based email interface for me and my admin people. so we could all work out of the same email at the same time--that's it. Not invent a whole new email system and BUY a blade-server. Dolts. Thus, Desk. It's not wondrous, but it's okay. I saw a Russian product I thought about...but then, having a smart moment for a change, I said, "hmmm...nyet." ;-)

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