Ask Slashdot: Open Communications Set-Up For Small Office?

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 4, 2012 @06:27AM from the raising-your-standards dept.

New submitter earthwormgaz writes "I've started at a small company and our phone system is crusty, old, and awful. We've got email hosted elsewhere on POP/IMAP, and we've got no groupware. The server here is Windows small business whatever-it-is and Exchange isn't set up, but I've put CentOS on it in a VM, and I'd like to do everything using open standards and open source where possible. I've been looking at SOGO, and these phones. What are my chances of getting all this stuff working together? What other suggestions have people got a for a small office and communications?"

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Phones? by fm6 · 2012-10-04 06:55 · Score: 4, Interesting

The last time i worked in an office, there was no phone on my desk. If my boss wanted me, he IMed me.
Focus on your business by tepi90 · 2012-10-04 07:09 · Score: 4, Interesting

Get everybody a cheap mobile phone with a business plan or agree to pay $50/month if they use their own phone (most people will). Move your email, calendar and documents to Google Apps or similar. And then focus on your real business.