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I hate when salespeople resort to fear and misinformation to sell their product. It makes me furious. I’ve spent weeks and weeks at work researching and convincing folks to use a new service for Webinars and online Meetings, as the one we had (which shall remain nameless) stank. So I finally get the wonderful services of GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar, brought to you by the folks who make GoToMyPC. Easy to use, the price is right, and just works.

And then a salesperson from WebEx e-mails his contact at my company flat out lying to them about a security hole in GoToMeeting… The link was ACTUALLY about a security hole in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PRODUCT. To clarify: The WebEx sales guy called EITHER his integrity OR his expertise into serious question. Eitherway, he validated my decision. If you’d like to read the text of the message (a few details edited out), read on…

From: [snip]@webex.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 3:11 PM
To: [snip]
Subject: Security concerns just reported today

I thought this article might be of interest to you. There are new security concerns that were publicly reported today about GoToMeeting.

http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm ?newsID=8195&pagtype=samechan

Would you have 15 minutes next week to discuss how WebEx delivers webinars differently than GoToMeeting? I would like to have a back up plan in place for your webinars. My main concern is your success, and I am not aware of any companies running webinars with GoToMeeting. I would have some serious concerns if I were in your shoes.

Best,

[snip]