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Corporate IT/Enterprise forums?

Jeff7181

Jeff7181

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Just curious if there are any decent forums where corporate IT/enterprise/data center topics are discussed since my suggestion to add such a forum here was shot down.
 
The thing is most tech forums are going to be set up to be fixed on either a single manufacturer or single type of technology.

If you are looking for a social forum find a social one.

Cisco has forums and you don't have to talk only Cisco...

Much of the "Certification" forums also are good places to discuss tech.

However, if one can't find these types of things I am doubting they will help in the end.
 
Why don't we have something like this here? Judging from the posts I see around here, we must already have a few hundred IT workers posting here weekly.
 
Yeah... if we had an IT forum here, I'd post all kinds of interesting questions. Since I design computers for fast food restaurants, I run into all kinds of unique issues that regular businesses don't have.

I'll bet that most of your typical IT customers don't need a PC that can survive being smashed by a frying pan or hosed down with oil, for example 🙂
 
ultimatebob said:
Yeah... if we had an IT forum here, I'd post all kinds of interesting questions. Since I design computers for fast food restaurants, I run into all kinds of unique issues that regular businesses don't have.

I'll bet that most of your typical IT customers don't need a PC that can survive being smashed by a frying pan or hosed down with oil, for example 🙂
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Well then chances are there would be no one else to answer your questions.

They hose stuff down in oil in fast food places? I have never seen a frying pan in one either though.
 
alkemyst said:
Well then chances are there would be no one else to answer your questions.

They hose stuff down in oil in fast food places? I have never seen a frying pan in one either though.
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They don't do it on purpose, but accidents happen when they change out the oil in those fryers. Frequently. What's even funnier is that the fast food workers occasionally think that it's a good idea to rinse the computer parts off in the sink after they spill oil all over them.
 
alfa147x said:
Why not start a corp IT thread?
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Because it's inefficient. There are thousands of topics that could be discussed. If people actually used it, it would quickly grow to thousands of replies. My idea wasn't to discuss corporate IT in general. It was to discuss topics that fall under corporate IT.
 
Yeah... I think that a lot of people who joined this forum +5 years ago started out using and fixing PC's as a hobby, and now of lot of them do it for a living. Unfortunately, it was a lot more fun when it was a hobby, though 🙁

Even if a IT forum didn't work before, I'd imagine that it would work now.
 
It's been requested before here.

The answer seems to be that because the segregated IT forum failed, there is not reason for one here. Ignoring the facts that there aren't many articles in the IT site, users of these forums had to register a separate account on that forum, and it was not easy to find without hitting one of the infrequently published IT articles, I think the main reason they don't want one now is they don't care as AT has been leaning more towards consumer electronics than computers or IT.
 
ultimatebob said:
Yeah... if we had an IT forum here, I'd post all kinds of interesting questions. Since I design computers for fast food restaurants, I run into all kinds of unique issues that regular businesses don't have.

I'll bet that most of your typical IT customers don't need a PC that can survive being smashed by a frying pan or hosed down with oil, for example 🙂
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Close, but I think my best story from about 10 years ago is better. We had a customer that wanted our company to load custom software on PDAs, connect a peripheral to those PDAs, and then to test the operation of the configuration. Doesn't sound bad so far, does it? Guess what those PDAs did?

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Tested urine for certain drugs. Yes, the customer expected us to maintain jars of urine onsite in order to test the config. :| This wasn't a medical facility, either -- this was Compaq!
 
Jeff7181 said:
Because it's inefficient. There are thousands of topics that could be discussed. If people actually used it, it would quickly grow to thousands of replies. My idea wasn't to discuss corporate IT in general. It was to discuss topics that fall under corporate IT.
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The problem for an Corp IT subsection is that it won't get enough traffic. Start a thread to prove that their is a need for a subsection.
 
Lifted said:
It's been requested before here.

The answer seems to be that because the segregated IT forum failed, there is not reason for one here. Ignoring the facts that there aren't many articles in the IT site, users of these forums had to register a separate account on that forum, and it was not easy to find without hitting one of the infrequently published IT articles, I think the main reason they don't want one now is they don't care as AT has been leaning more towards consumer electronics than computers or IT.
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It's BECAUSE it was segregated that it failed. Nobody wants to visit two different sites to reach the same community. Add an "IT Computing" section to Hardware and Technology and I guarantee it will see traffic. Hell... add it to social... I don't care, just do something to separate it from the rest of the stuff so people that are looking for this kin of information information and people offering this kind of information have a place to go. We've got some smart people here... engineers, admins, consultants. I don't understand why the admins of these forums wouldn't want to plant that seed.

There are plenty of forums here that are NOT related to technology at all... they exist because these forums are about the community, not just consumer electronics. This community is made up of people who work in IT... why not give them an outlet to say, "Hey, I'm looking at disk-to-disk backup appliances and wondered if anyone had any first hand experience with Exagrid."
 
Jeff7181 said:
why not give them an outlet to say, "Hey, I'm looking at disk-to-disk backup appliances and wondered if anyone had any first hand experience with Exagrid."
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Their answer would be that it goes in the Memory and Storage forum.

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Jeff7181 said:
It's BECAUSE it was segregated that it failed. Nobody wants to visit two different sites to reach the same community. Add an "IT Computing" section to Hardware and Technology and I guarantee it will see traffic. Hell... add it to social... I don't care, just do something to separate it from the rest of the stuff so people that are looking for this kin of information information and people offering this kind of information have a place to go. We've got some smart people here... engineers, admins, consultants. I don't understand why the admins of these forums wouldn't want to plant that seed.

There are plenty of forums here that are NOT related to technology at all... they exist because these forums are about the community, not just consumer electronics. This community is made up of people who work in IT... why not give them an outlet to say, "Hey, I'm looking at disk-to-disk backup appliances and wondered if anyone had any first hand experience with Exagrid."
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I will second this request. I remember years ago I asked about it and I was pointed to the IT area that was all segragated off. Had to register a new account etc. It quickly died away beacuse it was all segragated off. It does seem strange that they don't want a separate IT area.
 
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GodlessAstronomer said:
"General Hardware"
"Computer Help"
"Networking"

These all exist.
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I suppose you could post there, but your topic would drown in the sea of "Netgear or D-Link?" types of threads.

On the other hand, if there was a separate forum, your topic might just sit there with 0 replies for the next 8 weeks until whatever question you asked is no longer relevant..
 
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