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Design a Virtual Office with Open Source?

Posted by Cliff on from the how-would-you-do-it dept.

apropos asks: "An interesting question came up recently when discussing (yet again) starting an open-source based consulting company: 'How would you design the ultimate virtual office with open source software?' With things like fax, VoIP, web, email, security and office suites all available as open source products, what kind of useful things could be done? One idea that came to mind was emailing answering machine recordings. What would you put into your ultimate virtual office solution?"

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  1. Emacs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Emacs has all those things, right?

    1. Re:Emacs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah. All you need on top of that is another text editor.

    2. Re:Emacs by I_Want_This_ID · · Score: 5, Funny

      Emacs is a nice operating system, all it really needs now is a text editor.

  2. Re:Hmmm.. by Tandoori+Haggis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Laptops (computers) are expensive.
    Laptops (secretaries) are expensive

    Hmm... which one to choose?

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  3. Easy... by ilctoh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just create an MS BOB clone! Not only would you have a virtual office, but you'd have a virtual kitchen, living room, filling cabinet, and more great features at your finger tips!

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