Welcome, new sales guy, new HR rep, new project manager! Now set up your gmail, google calendar, share with this list of other calendars, use this other password to sign into your laptop, on which you should install these apps (you can probably download them from the internet somewhere), and which you will maintain entirely on your own. There is no one to help you. IT is obsolete...
Re:The end of the IT department
by theBobMcCormick on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @04:42PM
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I was with you up until "you should install these apps".. Wow is that gonna end up a disaster. Virus infection in 3..2..1
Like lawyers, insurance agents, and government officials, everyone bitches and moans about IT...until they need them.
Does OP honestly believe that small business people can maintain their own servers? Remember, these are mostly people who believe that theBrowser = theInternet, all you have to do is "plug and play", and when in doubt, reboot.
Does OP really believe that small business people can rely on "local expertise from a web site somewhere" to insure mission critical up time, maintenance, and fiduciary compliance. Not anywhere I've ever been.
I get it that 37signals is cool and has built a really nice silo within which to operate. But please stop with the posts about the other 99% of the world you know nothing about.