Why Email Is Still The Most Adopted Collaboration Tool

An anonymous reader writes "Isaac Garcia, the founder of a Web 2.0 Collaboration Software company, writes bluntly about why Email is still the preferred and most adopted collaboration solution around. 'So, why are Collaboration Software Vendors (Central Desktop included), keen on vilifying email and so quick to promise a practical alternative to the chaos of email? And, if the vendor's software is so much better than email, than why do users revert back to email as soon as they hit a snag in the system? Why do users refuse to adopt collaboration software?'"

Comments

geee

[sl8r]

"why do users revert back to email as soon as they hit a snag in the system?"

Mmmmh... i love the smell of rhetorical questions in the morning...

Email

[u16084]

EMAIL Is Just that EMAIL. And the system is stressed to hell. I had a client of mine attempt to attach a 500 meg file an email.. Wtf.. I asked him if he would put a postage stamp on a brick and mail it... and quite didnt understand. Email should be left to its "mail" - dont start adding layers to something that was never meant to be.

Re:Email

[bwalling]

EMAIL Is Just that EMAIL. And the system is stressed to hell. I had a client of mine attempt to attach a 500 meg file an email.. Wtf.. I asked him if he would put a postage stamp on a brick and mail it... and quite didnt understand. Email should be left to its "mail" - dont start adding layers to something that was never meant to be.

What a moron! Why didn't he just ask the recipient to setup an FTP server in the DMZ, configure FTP over SSH, set him up a user account and give him the IP and relevant login information so he could just FTP it? Sheesh, when will these users ever learn?

Re:Email

[pandrijeczko]

Guess what: so is P2P.

Yes, but I think the author was talking about delivering a large file at least within the same decade...

Re:Email

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Don't be ridiculous!

Clearly a Ruby on Rails based AJAX solution with realtime GUI synergy is what's required here.

Why?

[voice_of_all_reason]

Because it is full of internets: (http://studentpages.scad.edu/~tfarre20/email_cart oon.mpg)

end result- dust and a DEA note

[way2trivial]

http://www.directcreative.com/aaexperiments.html
Wrapped brick. Wrapped in brown paper; posted in street corner box with same amount of postage as was strapped to unwrapped brick. Extreme weight for size made package seem suspicious. Notice of attempted delivery received, 16 days. Upon pickup at station, our mailing specialist received a plastic bag containing broken and pulverized remnants of brick. Inside was a small piece of paper with a number code on it. Our research indicates that this was some type of US Drug Enforcement Agency release slip. The clerk made our mailing specialist sign a form for receipt.

Re:Echoes of TFA

[tetromino]

Admittedly the lag time is down to hours or even minutes rather than days

Uhm. Hours? The last time I had to wait hours for my email was back in 1997. Perhaps you should retire that MicroVAX and get some modern hardware for your mail server?

Re:And it's less restrictive

[Austerity Empowers]

Exactly, and if another $*%&# outlook user books me in another $(%^*# meeting without even ASKING me if I'm available, or if it's a good time, I think America is going to hear about epic scale workplace violence.