Slack allows multiple devices from the same account, with multiple permissions / control levels per user/group. Also many NMS systems now have slack support, so our outages, alarts, etc got send to a #NOC channel
Really, try it out. It's free / easy for most things, depending on your needs. On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:48 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm <[email protected]> wrote: > xabber seems to work well with openfire > > I did like some features of openfire like it could fetch emails and send > them to groups for outage alerting and the integration of sip allowed us to > use the spark client as a softphone. I just dont like that the same account > cant be logged in from multiple clients at the same time > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I used trillian for a long time to communicate with friends. Hated the way >> multiple platform part of it worked, but it worked. >> >> For private IM we now mostly use WhatsApp, as it has some cost advantages >> for the people in our circle that travel internationally. >> >> For work IM, we now are using Slack. It's goofy in a couple of ways, and >> when you're in a poor cell zone (we have a lot of those around here), it >> doesn't work at all/ >> >> >> bp >> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >> >> On 8/24/2016 1:14 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm wrote: >> >> We run an openfire server and have always used the spak im client for >> interoffice communication between TS, CS and and administration >> the problem is we never knew who was where and it required a different >> username on each device, workstation, mobile, laptop, etc without >> configuring a boot on the openfire server, just a pita to remember to login >> logout everytime you changed locations if you wanted uniformity, and >> histories only logged on the server, so if i popped on my laptop on the same >> account as my workstation it wouldnt have the workstation history. >> >> trillian solves this as you connect to the trillian server and it connects >> to your inhouse im server (or yahoo aol or facebook, etc) from multiple >> devices at the same time >> >> They have a free client with their server with ads or whatever, a paid >> client with some features, and an in house server with perpetual licensing >> and optional renewal >> >> It seems to meet the need, however, im my previous interweb miscreient >> days it was trillian and ICQ i used to deliver sub7 packages to my >> unsuspecting victims, ie, it was a toy software. It seems to have grown, but >> is it still a toy software? >> >> -- >> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team >> as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >> >> > > > > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as > part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
