Hi Casey, On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:39:26 -0700 Casey Cain <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > There are some key differences though. > > Zoom has full cross platform support for Linux, Windows and Mac as > well as some interesting collaborative features and in conference > polling. Zoom does have limited Cloud storage, but this is offset by > the ability for users to record locally. Zoom's biggest flaw that I > have seen so far is that a paid licence (from the same account that > scheduled the meeting) must be logged into the meeting or it will end > automatically after 40 minutes. Zoom will cost the OpenDaylight > Project $1,650/y
I agree about the flaw you mention being possibly the biggest, or if not a flaw, at least a key difference compared to BlueJeans: ad-hoc community conference calls are a *very* nice feature to have, without the licence holder needing to be involved. From my point of view Zoom’s biggest *flaw* is that it’s inaccessible without using a proprietary client. Obviously there are ways of making that safe, and since I’ve been participating in the WebEx calls I can be pragmatic about it, but given the choice I’d rather use a conferencing system that doesn’t require proprietary bits on the client. I did notice that Zoom’s client supports screen-sharing even on Wayland, albeit obviously limited to X applications only. (BlueJeans has trouble with Wayland desktops currently.) > Bluejeans does not have full cross-platform support for Linux but does > support Mac, Windows and mobile platforms. Despite the lack of full > Linux platform support, Bluejeans does have a web client that works > on all platforms (*though it is currently buggy). The advantages of > Bluejeans are Unlimited cloud storage and the scheduler of the > meeting is not required to be present during the meeting, though some > collaborative features such as recording will be disabled if the host > is not present. Bluejeans will cost the OpenDaylight Project $3,000/y Right, so currently BlueJeans only provides a pre-built client for RPM-based distributions. The key feature here though is that participating in a BlueJeans conference only needs WebRTC support on the client; at Red Hat we have loads of BlueJeans users on Firefox, Chrome and Chromium, and it just works, with no plugins or extensions. In fact the BlueJeans client is just a packaged version of Chromium, frozen in time (to make support easier for them). It’s not perfect (it uses a lot of CPU, and tends to develop audio lag if your system’s loaded — so you can’t build ODL during a conference call), but it’s definitely usable, and much friendlier for occasional users or users who change devices a lot (no need to download software before joining a meeting). I *think* it also supports SIP connections, which can be handy for some people. I’ve never used this but I’ve seen it mentioned (but I may have misunderstood). Regarding meeting recordings, I think that you can set meetings up so that they record automatically: the recording starts as soon as two people are in the meeting, and stops as soon as everyone leaves. The organiser doesn’t need to be present as far as I’m aware. (At least, that’s what happens on the NetVirt calls!) Regards, Stephen
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