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JimmiG said:
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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To be honest if you have important work-related questions in enterprise IT then your best bet is to ask elsewhere.

http://serverfault.com
http://superuser.com
http://programmers.stackexchange.com
http://stackoverflow.com
http://security.stackexchange.com
http://pm.stackexchange.com


depending on the nature of your question.
 
GodlessAstronomer said:
To be honest if you have important work-related questions in enterprise IT then your best bet is to ask elsewhere.

http://serverfault.com
http://superuser.com
http://programmers.stackexchange.com
http://stackoverflow.com
http://security.stackexchange.com
http://pm.stackexchange.com


depending on the nature of your question.
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Why? There is a fair amount of people on this forum that work in a IT Enterprise environment and spend part of there day. There is a community of people that know each other. Why would Anandtech want to drive traffic away to other forums?
 
Lifted said:
Their answer would be that it goes in the Memory and Storage forum.

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QFT...AT would be the LAST place I would be looking for this kind of arena.

Just all the nefs and googlers here would never make it work out...add in the random mod with an agenda and you may as well set sail for fail.
 
Brovane said:
Why? There is a fair amount of people on this forum that work in a IT Enterprise environment and spend part of there day. There is a community of people that know each other. Why would Anandtech want to drive traffic away to other forums?
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lolz
 
GodlessAstronomer said:
To be honest if you have important work-related questions in enterprise IT then your best bet is to ask elsewhere.

http://serverfault.com
http://superuser.com
http://programmers.stackexchange.com
http://stackoverflow.com
http://security.stackexchange.com
http://pm.stackexchange.com


depending on the nature of your question.
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You're partially correct. If anyone working with enterprise class hardware and software comes to AT for help with something that's actually broken they should probably be fired. On the other hand, opinions are valuable when you're making implementation decisions and want the opinion of a group of people you're familiar with but have different experiences than you and your colleagues.
 
JimmiG said:
I suppose you could post there, but your topic would drown in the sea of "Netgear or D-Link?" types of threads.
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I second this. Part of the reasons why I don't make more professionally-oriented posts on AT is that the forum's atmosphere is dominated by the hobbyist/consumer crowd. Not only would my posts by drowned out by "Netgear or D-Link" type threads, but I'd also have people providing solutions/commentary on my posts that make it clear they've never worked in a professional IT environment. In addition, asking us to post our IT-related questions in a technology-specific subforum ignores the fact that professional IT is less about a particular technology and more about making disparate technologies function together as a cohesive system, a distinction that's often lost when posting about "just" CPU's or "just" hard drives.

As for those claiming that it wouldn't have enough traffic to be worthwhile, why does it matter? Does it really put that much of a strain on Anandtech to have an additional subforum? If you look at Anandtech's competitiors (Tom's Hardware, [H]ardOCP, Ars Technica, etc), they nearly all have subforums dedicated to professional IT topics. They obviously don't have the volume of a general subforum like ATOT, but they're not dead either. Considering that Anandtech has a (surprisingly good) subsection dedicated to reviews and information on professional IT topics, it boggles my mind why Anandtech is the only major site of its kind that doesn't have an IT-specific subforum.

/rant
 
I'd like this as well.

I work with Virtualization, SAN, and Wintel based stuff and there's no good centralized place for discussing these items.

Vmware does have decent forums for their product at least...
 
the one thing I do ask here enterprise IT related is usually for product or software recommendations, because its hard to find a decent review thats not a canned corp promo for lots of stuff.
 
FWIW, yes, I also agree that AT should have an "Enterprise IT" subforum. The stack exchange network (as GodlessAstronomer linked) is great for asking very specific how-to questions, but they try to make it very clear that it's not a forum. Sometimes I don't want to ask a specific question, and instead want to have a discussion about a product or technology (or whatever).
 
It really would be a great addition to the forum...I have had a few enterprise-grade questions and never get a very good answer. I'm surprised, considering we have a relationships forum on a tech website, but no enterprise IT-type of forum.

I'm sure there are plenty of people on here with answers to some of the more difficult enterprise IT questions.
 
ultimatebob said:
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.
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IMO, depends where you work...and what you can do. I still find it fun, because I am always involved in the new rollouts...hardware...software...and all that jazz.

I'd like to see a corporate section too, but I think it's been requested and denied a few times.
 
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even though this isn't really a poll or petition, i'll add my name to the list of people that would like to see an enterprise IT type sub-forum.
 
That's the point...this forum is not really the right place. You will have googlers just trying to answer everything.

A real tech forum usually has real moderation and a bit stricter sign up and validation.
 
Been looking for a forum like this for a long time. Need to be able to talk about enterprise-class problems without all the "ZOMG I got 10 more Mhz by bathing my motherboard in liquid nitrogen" douchery.
 
I'll throw my hat into the ring as well. I'd love to have an Enterprise IT forum. Outside of OT, there are lots of people who know what they're talking about around here (there are a few inside OT as well).

What there really isn't around the web, is a good (free) forum where IT people can go to and get help about various enterprise class problems
 
phoenix79 said:
What there really isn't around the web, is a good (free) forum where IT people can go to and get help about various enterprise class problems
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Precisely...all of the good IT forums require you to pay, but, that is probably for a good reason. Why not create something that is free, and that everyone can tap into. Enterprise IT shouldn't be a secret, or have so many barriers to entry. Information really should be free, and why not allow AT to be a catalyst for that.
 
JimmiG said:
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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Highly Technical works because there are other forums for technical support here. An Enterprise IT forum would need to be policed the same way. Something tells me such a forum could drive up this site's traffic, because it would attract professional users with a legitimate need to surf this site during the day.

If I were the forum director (cough PERKNOSE callout?), I'd at least give it a shot. If the traffic sucks, just merge it back with general hardware.
 
alkemyst said:
That's the point...this forum is not really the right place. You will have googlers just trying to answer everything.
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Circular reasoning. You have googlers trying to answer everything because the current layout of this forum forces professional and amateur topics together, which frustrates professional participation.
 
theevilsharpie said:
Circular reasoning. You have googlers trying to answer everything because the current layout of this forum forces professional and amateur topics together, which frustrates professional participation.
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Right, so you what you are suggesting can't really take place here.

Not to mention the lack of proper moderators.

There are existing forums for this, there is no need to further dilute AT.

AT does well as a more social-centric base.

Most Enterprise type forums do not have Off Topic or other BS.
 
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