If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!

scottalanmiller

Welcome to @fortynine and @virtualrick

virtualrick

@scottalanmiller Thanks Scott, I joined specifically to reply to the thread around Simplivity. Like you guys I am a passionate IT pro and hopefully I can provide value to the forum. Thanks again!

scottalanmiller

@virtualrick said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@scottalanmiller Thanks Scott, I joined specifically to reply to the thread around Simplivity. Like you guys I am a passionate IT pro and hopefully I can provide value to the forum. Thanks again!

Great to have Simplivity joining us. Thanks for taking the time to join and participate.

virtualrick

@scottalanmiller Absolutely

tiagom

@virtualrick Welcome aboard! Always exciting to have vendors join in the discussions.

scottalanmiller

Welcome to @bknudtson

bknudtson

@scottalanmiller Thanks Scott! Glad to find a new community to join and participate in.

How would you compare/contrast Mangolassi (did I get that right) to Spiceworks? Apologies if there's already a place with this answer. Haven't had a chance to poke around yet.

tiagom

@bknudtson Welcome!

bknudtson

Thanks @tiagom!

scottalanmiller

@bknudtson said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@scottalanmiller Thanks Scott! Glad to find a new community to join and participate in.

How would you compare/contrast Mangolassi (did I get that right) to Spiceworks? Apologies if there's already a place with this answer. Haven't had a chance to poke around yet.

No official thread on that, we try not to promote a head to head comparison atmosphere because that's not the idea, but given our close proximity of communities and members, it tends to come up pretty naturally.

From a high level, SW has a product around which it is officially centered and ML does not. ML is pure community. SW is much older, about 3-4 times as old. ML is 2.5 years.

The biggest high level difference is that ML is a full open community, vendors and non-internal IT are all seen as peers at the discussion table, whereas SW operates on a hierarchy where IT pros are one tier, vendors are another, MSPs are mostly pros but kinda vendors, etc. So vendors (like Simplivity) are equal conversational participants with IT pros. ML lives off of the "Cluetrain Manifesto" theory, the conversation is the market and the market is the value. So all vendor participation is free and open, any vendor can jump in at any time.

ML does not use groups, except for a handful of very high level ones, but uses tags for taxonomic purposes. SW is group based for the same function. That takes a bit to adapt to.

ML has no private groups, what you see is what you get (there are some threads about us testing a few, but they were removed after about a month of testing long ago.)

ML will normally update while you are looking at the conversation rather than needing the page to reload.

I think that those are the high level differences.