To fax or not fax..

Facsimile - everybody said it was dead. But it is alive and kicking everywhere. New life has been breathed into the good old facsimile, which has been around for generations. Fax from your computer via the internet. I had to question why this would be a viable option considering that email, mailing lists and list servers are taking the world by storm. But companies can use this form of communication and information sending technology right from the good old PC (or Mac). What are the advantages? No extra telephone line required for the fax, paperless communication, integrated with email send and receive multiple faxes simultaneously,
reduction in phone costs (taken from the Web). But really isn't this just hanging onto a technology that is wasted and of no use anymore. Do faxes have their place. This is debatable really, PDF is used to send Docs world wide and you can protect important docs via email, everything is electronic and available on the net. I have yet to see what my team thinks on this technology. I suppose with anything new or old, it depends on the user and what their preferences are. People still have dial up Internet access for goodness sake and why because it is what they know, so why not still use a fax, it works and saves time learning a new technology, the flip side of this being that learning that new technology means saving time in the long run.

MMM The technology war continues. What to use and what not to use, when to upgrade and move on - it depends on the user and collaboration can help with this, who will ever have the utmost up to date technology for longer than a week - find me someone and I will eat my words.