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Solution to replace Microsoft Live Meeting running on Linux



thanks for the suggestion. I think I may use webex.

-D

--- Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> wrote:

> As Matt S. mentioned, GnomeMeeting does video
> conferencing, but you might be
> able to get away with something much simpler.
> 
> If you have a high bandwidth connection, you might
> be able to get away with
> using VNC.  The nice thing about that is there are
> clients (and servers) for
> most operating systems.  It would also allow you to
> demo things that can't be
> shown in powerpoint.  If Live Meeting is clever
> (i.e. does an a priori transfer
> of the entire presentation, then only transmits only
> slide-transition commands
> during a presentation) then VNC will be noticeably
> slower.
> 
> You can set up VNC client/viewers such that they
> cannot take over the
> mouse/keyboard of the host machine.
> 
> Matt
> 
> Dave Peters wrote:
> > Microsoft Live Meeting allow you to do
> presentation on
> > your pc and let customer watch your presentation
> from
> > their end.
> > 
> > --- Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Dave Peters wrote:
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> I am looking for any solution that we can
> replace
> >>> Microsoft Live Meeting that can run on Linux. 
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the help.
> >> I don't know what Live Meeting does.  Can you be
> >> specific about the
> >> functionality you're looking for?
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
> > 
> > 
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