FW: The FP Room: Meeting with Ken and Laura Brody

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Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services done said:
> 	So, my question is:
> 
> 	What methods and equipment have the rest of you come up with to
> overcome these problems?  

Haven't had those problems.  Kelly's usually in the other room, but I use
both a headset -and- speakers and she can usually hear well enough to pick
up on things if she wants to listen--yet still watch TV or listen to music
without being distracted if that's what she's up to.  She's never had a
problem with it, honestly.

> 	Have you found comfortable wireless headsets (with microphones) that
> allow you to move around the office and still stay connected to Ivocalize?
> (I hate to wear a full padded headset over both ears when I'm working in a
> client's office.  It makes it looks like I'm listening to music or watching
> TV, instead of concentrating on their programming.)

I have a PlanTronics that has only one ear.  It's -more- conduscive to
answering the phone, although if I need to put the phone between my ear and
shoulder, I need to take off the headset, as it just doesn't work right
with the shoulder that's got the free ear usually.  It's good for quick
answers and anything for which I don't need the keyboard though.

John and I were looking at their offerings for my new system, and they'll
be releasing a wireless headset with mic in January.  It'll run $270
though.

I haven't seen or heard of any other wireless headsets, but I did pretty
limited checking--mostly looking at what CompUSA had, and what PlanTronics
was doing, since I like the model I have but just wanted to ditch the wire.
For $270, I'm not sure it's -worth- being untethered.  Especially since I
don't walk around.  The convenience would be just one less wire to tangle.

> 	I should note that at a couple of these places, filePro is
> considered a "dead horse"; just kept in place as a "legacy system", so I
> hope that a couple of you might mention vital business apps and new things
> that you are doing with filePro!  

Even if I consider something a legacy system, there's a realisation that
someone is going to keep it around because the cost of redevelopment and
redeployment is too great unless there's tremendous incentive.  Given that,
it makes sense to still develop solutions for such environments that let
them make use of modern tehcnology.  I'm working on such a beast right now,
though I'm unsure how widely it will be adopted.

'legacy' ne 'don't develop for'

-Someone- has to support legacy applications.  There are still COBOL
programmers around for a reason.  :)

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