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June 03, 2003
When tools suck
I've just spent a while wrestling with a new Web-based collaboration tool we have. This is supposed to help us "work smarter", but so far it is just causing me aggrevation. 1) It's not clear if this tool really works with any browser but IE. And the Java part of it doesn't work with JDK 1.4 on Linux 2) I don't seem to have access to add anything, such as the status report I'm supposed to add This may be wonderful eventually, but tools that are not set up right or don't work really suck, because they waste your time and not only haven't you become more productive, you've become less productive because you've wasted hours trying to get the tool to work. Now this was a tool produced by some company that is supposed to be a specialist in doing this. Now they can't be blamed for my account being set up wrong, but as for the browsers, what the heck?Posted by markj at June 3, 2003 05:36 PM
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