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Webinar / WebEx recommendations

Preferably something I can host myself

         

pmkpmk

4:15 pm on Feb 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Hi there,

my sales guys are all excited about Webinar or WebEx software. Those applications is like remote-access, only the other way around. A software tool captures their screen, and displays it on a remote PC within the browser. It's admittedly a great tool to demonstrate software, and it saves a lot of driving.

They hooked up with an online service's introductory offer, and now they want to start seriously with more workstations hooked up to it and with an online subscription form on the homepage. They also want to do one-to-many, instead of one-to-one.

OK, any recommendations on what services to use? Or even better, a tool which I can install on my LAMP server to host this myself? Any tools or services which also support Firefox and Opera and not only Internet Explorer?

Any other experiences, tips and tricks?

txbakers

6:19 pm on Feb 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I adore Webex, but it is only available through them, and only with IE on a Windows desktop.

But you can do one to many with them.

aleksl

2:38 pm on Feb 24, 2005 (gmt 0)



I've used WebEx before, we even integrated it into another software once.

Yeah, sure good tool, can replace some long-distance travel if you need to show a document to someone real quick and dicuss it. Will never replace human interaction.

It is obviously IE-only 'cause it uses ActiveX to dump a whole load of software on your PC to support meetings.

bcolflesh

2:45 pm on Feb 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Jabber server and the conferencing server addin are probably a good fit for you:

[jabber.org...]

[rpmfind.net...]

txbakers

11:37 am on Feb 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

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something unusual happened lastnight.

I set up another Webex meeting (actually their support center, which is a stripped down version, but it works thesame way) and the other party had a Mac with OSX.

The meeting went fine. I could share and control the mac desktop, she could share and control my desktop as well.

So, I guess the Webex can work with Mac and PC now.
Cool.

pmkpmk

11:59 am on Feb 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

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The tool our sales guys stumbled across is called "BestSella". Anybody worked with that before? How does it compare to WebEx?