Talk:Small office/home office

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SOHO=Virtual Business? Since when? --tooki 14:30, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I am always a little cautious in taking out text that others have put in, thinking that eventually I would run across a confirmation of what they wrote but I have to admit that after several months of looking at this I have not found the slightest basis for these sentences concerning a virtual business and the unfulfilled promise of it. There is something very real about SOHOs but it is not this virtual business concept. AlainV 01:24, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Software development has a 36/48hr cycle?

I DIDN'T GET THE EFFING MEMO! Why didn't anybody tell me? Can you please cite? User:Project2501a 15:11, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I have no precise book or article but about half the computer corporations (or corporation s with large software developement departments) I have been acquainted with in the last 20 years have a few software developers (usually their best) working for a 36 or 48 hour stretch, then sleeping ten, twelve, fourteen hours, then working for another 36 hours, and so on. Their work and rest cycles did not fit with the normal solar day. --AlainV 02:17, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The article Homesourcing has recently been started which is about this same concept. I've merge tagged both articles. hydnjo talk 12:57, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name change?

The name of this article really doesn't fit with the subject. It really should be "Small Office-Home Office" or similar. The slash denotes an XOR condition in this case, which is kind of sloppy. As well, the Wikipedia syntax makes this page a subpage of the nonexistent (and rightly so) Small office page. --Kickstart70·Talk 15:39, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

(This is ported over from the Help Desk.) I do not believe there is any reason for a name change. "Small office/home office" is by far the predominant form in common usage, which according to WP:NAME should be the article title. There is no presumption of "an XOR condition"; this is common idiomatic usage, not an article about logic or mathematics. And the sub-page issue is a triviality: it's only incorrect to create substantive sub-pages in article space. The fact that the slash creates a sub-page is a trivial artifact of how the MediaWiki software works, presents no practical problem, and is much less important than using the correct title for the page. To give some examples, AC/DC is technically a sub-page of AC because of this artifact, but no one has a problem with that. The same is true with Other articles with slashes in their titles include F/X, f/stop (a redirect, but still a valid title in article space), Either/Or, System/360, AS/400, and many, many more. (Those were just a few that came immediately to mind.) It's just not an issue. MCB 22:11, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually, after further reading, this section of WP:NAME seems to indicate the sub-page behavior is no longer the case in article space in the current MediaWiki software, so it's not an issue at all, and the only issue with slashes is avoiding the suggestion of a hierarchy of articles, which obviously is not the case here. MCB 22:17, 7 April 2006 (UTC)