Talk:GoToMyPC
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[edit] Free alternatives
Users should know that there are free alternatives. I have added RealVNC in combination with BarracudaDrive as one possible alternative. I urge users to add other types of alternatives.
- Hmmm ... much as I support FLOSS, I don't think 'free alternatives' belongs here.
- This page describes a company, not the remote control software market. I think a discussion of specific competitive threats to GoToMyPC's business would be relevant -- but I don't think we'll find any citation supporting the 'free alternatives' as threats to GoToMyPC's bottom line. Even a brief discussion of the remote control software marketplace and technologies, free and not-free, would be appropriate, if there's not already a pages covering that.
- It's original research.
- It looks like advocacy: Why limit it to Free alternatives? Why not other alternatives (e.g., Webex, etc.)? Why these in particular, when there are so many out there? I don't think we should list all remote control software in the GoToMyPC article.
- There is already a "See Also" section and "Category: Remote Administration Software" where readers can find links to other products. Unless someones says something convincing, I am going to remove this section, moving any links to products to 'See Also'
- Guanxi 16:16, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- Receiving no response, I made the changes. Guanxi 01:49, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
It's heartbreaking to see people paying for this product that's probably already built into their computer (Windows XP or Vista). Nonetheless, I agree it smells too much like advocacy to simply list "free" alternatives. It's not the job of wikipedia to be an antidote for extremely pervasive marketing campaigns. Maybe a list of the competetition is the best that can be done. Someone please start or continue an appropriate list. 71.72.120.20 16:08, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Reorganization and revison
The article has been reorganized and revised to include a history of technology and business development, product editions, vendor claims for the 2006 release 5, and numerous references.
Craig Bolon 21:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
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This article was nominated for deletion on April 7, 2006. The result of the discussion was keep, no consensus. An archived record of this discussion can be found here. |
[edit] Merge proposal
There being notihng much to merge (the two were originally, I think, pretty much the same content), I have mage Gotomypc a redirect. Just zis Guy you know? 08:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
This is probably not of interest after reorganization of the article Craig Bolon 21:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] GoToMyPC uses VNC?
The first sentence says,
It provides remote desktop or Virtual Network Computing (VNC) access to Windows PCs.
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is an open source technology that is packaged into many products. It is not a generic term for remote access. Also, GoToMyPC does not use VNC as far as I know, and I was unable to find any evidence of it with quick research. Unless someone can cite something to back it up, I'll remove VNC from that sentence.Guanxi 16:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Fixed. Guanxi 14:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
