Well, that would be interesting, since Sprint's job board had "Senior Architecture Design Engineer" or some such posted for the Qchat project with a Fall 07 posting date, the last time I look.
I have no doubt they can screw up the architecture of Qchat as badly as they did with DirectConnect, er, PTT, um, WalkieTalkie. (And I say this as someone who sat in a conference room in Tampa in 1996 with a district and regional manager from Nextel, told them they needed to implement what they would later call Cross-fleet and Nationwide, and was told "nah; they'll never do that. Our customers aren't telling us they need that.".
I did; my client did. Look; there it was.
For Qchat, they need easy iDen interop, a PC/Internet desktop client -- even if they bill it as a separate line of service -- and the ability to cluster said desktops into a dispatch group, with manual release of the operator-radio association from the operator side.
Extra bonus points for using open protocols on the Internet interface.
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Q Chat is gonna blow everyone out of the water Sprint will be back at the top soon
Well, that would be interesting, since Sprint's job board had "Senior Architecture Design Engineer" or some such posted for the Qchat project with a Fall 07 posting date, the last time I look.
I have no doubt they can screw up the architecture of Qchat as badly as they did with DirectConnect, er, PTT, um, WalkieTalkie. (And I say this as someone who sat in a conference room in Tampa in 1996 with a district and regional manager from Nextel, told them they needed to implement what they would later call Cross-fleet and Nationwide, and was told "nah; they'll never do that. Our customers aren't telling us they need that.".
I did; my client did. Look; there it was.
For Qchat, they need easy iDen interop, a PC/Internet desktop client -- even if they bill it as a separate line of service -- and the ability to cluster said desktops into a dispatch group, with manual release of the operator-radio association from the operator side.
Extra bonus points for using open protocols on the Internet interface.
That won't be what we get, though.