canyonwalker | Zoom In, Zoom Out. Again.

My company is ditching Zoom, the popular web conferencing tool that has become virtually synonymous with distance communication since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. We standardized on Zoom in 2019 after an internal shoot-out between it and Citrix GoToMeeting, which we'd been using for a few years prior. I liked G2M better but I was outvoted. In April last year we unplugged Zoom when major security flaws were exposed. Then we returned to Zoom after the company acted suitably chastened. Now we're leaving Zoom... again.

This time our departure from Zoom is strictly financial. We've been Google Suite customers for many years. Google Meet is part of G-Suite, and we've been using it alongside Zoom for some of our meetings. Meet is not as richly featured as Zoom, though; nor does it scale as well. But apparently it has more features when you license a higher tier of G-Suite. Until now my company had avoided the more expensive tier as the added features didn't seem worth the price, but last month we got a year-end deal that made it attractive. So now we're unplugging Zoom and switching everything over to Meet. I'll see soon how much better than before it really is. And probably, in 11 months, I'll have to switch back to Zoom when our bargain-price subscription ends.