If you ever had to select a product for something, you probably asked people you trust about their opinion on said product. Most times that’s a good thing.
But what if this “opinion” comes from someone named by the people who made this product? Said product is a video conferencing software for which you have to open a ridiculous number of ports (more than a thousand) in your firewall and which keeps crashing when you try to switch to another program (e.g. for checking your emails).
CC-BY Kevindooley via flickr
In principle that would be like trusting this “safe” RBML nuclear reactor technology just because Russia did. You know that it is risky, but if a country that puts stuff into space trusts in it, it should be o.k.. And then the thing blows up. Right.
Until someone figures out a comfortable (easy to use, rock solid, high video and audio quality) way to do video conferencing without tearing 1000 holes into a firewall (and which is not called Skype) I opt for doing phone conferences. That just works the way you expect it to work.
