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This looks to be a very good solution to enterprise companies that want to hire remote contractors as it gives them a platform that is much cheaper and arguable

This looks to be a very good solution to enterprise companies that want to hire remote contractors as it gives them a platform that is much cheaper and arguable more (easy to) secure than other solutions such as VDI and VPN. Once this is fully integrated with Azure and Office 365 it’s basically a one stop shop for outsourcing development work and if the pricing remains the same it’s also a very cheap one.

loriverkutya 7y ago
You are missing one of the point of contracting: I'm the only one to decide, what kind of development environment I use and also, the kind of email/calendar/etc environment I use. And if it has anything to do with Office 365 I would not even poke it with a spiky stick covered in feces.
- oldmanhorton 7y ago
  I believe s/he means large scale contracting like Accenture and overseas IT shops, not smaller scale one person contracting
  - dogma1138 7y ago
    It can be both that poster over estimates just how many people have the luxury of choosing who to contract for based on what tools they have to work with. In fact it seems to me very petty and unprofessional attitude in the first place. And it would also prevent them from working for any company in a regulated sector or any company that cares about security and information governance not to mention about productivity; I’ve seen plenty of contractors like this being kicked out after the 3 time they missed a meeting because hipstermail or stallmanmail couldn’t parse the WebEx links in the meeting invite, they couldn’t open a Visio diagram or worse we found they were trying to push code into private repos or using some online code beautification services... Unless you are working on tiny projects as a contractor you are going to be obligated to use what ever tools the client uses, and in fact adherence to the “company spirit” is often more expected from contractors than internal teams that can get some leeway through internal politics.

loriverkutya 7y ago

You are missing one of the point of contracting: I'm the only one to decide, what kind of development environment I use and also, the kind of email/calendar/etc environment I use. And if it has anything to do with Office 365 I would not even poke it with a spiky stick covered in feces.

oldmanhorton 7y ago
I believe s/he means large scale contracting like Accenture and overseas IT shops, not smaller scale one person contracting
- dogma1138 7y ago
  It can be both that poster over estimates just how many people have the luxury of choosing who to contract for based on what tools they have to work with. In fact it seems to me very petty and unprofessional attitude in the first place. And it would also prevent them from working for any company in a regulated sector or any company that cares about security and information governance not to mention about productivity; I’ve seen plenty of contractors like this being kicked out after the 3 time they missed a meeting because hipstermail or stallmanmail couldn’t parse the WebEx links in the meeting invite, they couldn’t open a Visio diagram or worse we found they were trying to push code into private repos or using some online code beautification services... Unless you are working on tiny projects as a contractor you are going to be obligated to use what ever tools the client uses, and in fact adherence to the “company spirit” is often more expected from contractors than internal teams that can get some leeway through internal politics.