Why Jive is a dinosaur & Dropbox is the future

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I agree with this entirely. I was at a company that used Jive software. While it was better than anything we had before it, it wasn't perfect either. I would have like to try out other tools instead. The problem was that it was implemented in a top-down fashion without any input from the people who ended up having to use it the most.

That's how I feel about a lot of "enterprise" web products these days - from the outside they seem very successful because they have good sales teams that can convince managers to implement the product and get big sales numbers, but the product is actually lackluster and employees would use something else if given the choice. The power of the sales organization hides deficiencies on the product side.

Why would you ever listen to anyone (or any company) trying to sell you something?

Generally, I find the best things in life are those that don't spend enormous amounts of money trying to convince you they're the best. I mean, if they were really that good, you would think they wouldn't have to keep telling you they were.

100% of the time someone is trying to sell me something, I am suspicious.

This is a weird opening. Why wouldn't you listen to someone trying to sell you something? The opposite pre-supposes that you have all the information needed to make a decision about something you may have never encountered before. It may be that you're projecting suspicion onto the salesman rather than acknowledging that your own judgement may not be trustworthy. ;)

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