readwriteweb.com— Google CEO Eric Schmidt wrote an article for The Economist, in which he takes aim at Microsoft... And now Microsoft is talking tough in return via a Reuters article.
Nov 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
As I read this article, gmail notifier flashed, "Cannot connect to your mailbox. Service temporarily unavailable." When online mission critical apps have 99.999% uptime, then the corporate world will give it a look. But I suspect the Internet is still too fragile to make it happen atm.
There are other issues with the cloud model as well. If your company is involved in some sort of litigation you may be required to provide documents and emails. Obviously you would have to comply, but there would be a case for keeping certain confidential information out of the courts, even if it just means red-acting (sp?) some stuff. Now look at what happens when all your documents live on a Google server. The court approaches Google who would probably just have to hand everything over verbatim, there may not even be a requirement for Google to tell you they had complied.
in fairness, there's a whole lot more to worry about in cloud computing, than dataloss, although you made a very good point. When google desktop search decided on 'caching' your documents stored on network shares to google's servers last year, without telling people, the alarm bells should really have gone off in more peoples' heads. If they're doing that with your private data without telling you, what else are they doing? I certainly wouldn't want to put ANY personal or sensitive data anywhere near google, or microsoft, or any online storage. give me microsoft office 2007, a local hard disk, backups, and a firewall and i'm happy.
if you think that companies don't look at "free" alternatives in operating systems, and collaborative software then you're a lot crazier than your comment lets on. There is no single coherent open source alternative that can compete with the whole of windows, or the whole of office - and what there is that comes close certainly isn't open source, or free - it just may run on *nix. when you grow up and get out in to business you'll probably realise that. continue as you were until then.
Closed AccountNov 23, 2006
Meh.
kboyerNov 23, 2006
As I read this article, gmail notifier flashed, "Cannot connect to your mailbox. Service temporarily unavailable." When online mission critical apps have 99.999% uptime, then the corporate world will give it a look. But I suspect the Internet is still too fragile to make it happen atm.
diggintuesdayNov 23, 2006
There are other issues with the cloud model as well. If your company is involved in some sort of litigation you may be required to provide documents and emails. Obviously you would have to comply, but there would be a case for keeping certain confidential information out of the courts, even if it just means red-acting (sp?) some stuff. Now look at what happens when all your documents live on a Google server. The court approaches Google who would probably just have to hand everything over verbatim, there may not even be a requirement for Google to tell you they had complied.
jrbrewinNov 23, 2006
in fairness, there's a whole lot more to worry about in cloud computing, than dataloss, although you made a very good point. When google desktop search decided on 'caching' your documents stored on network shares to google's servers last year, without telling people, the alarm bells should really have gone off in more peoples' heads. If they're doing that with your private data without telling you, what else are they doing? I certainly wouldn't want to put ANY personal or sensitive data anywhere near google, or microsoft, or any online storage. give me microsoft office 2007, a local hard disk, backups, and a firewall and i'm happy.
jrbrewinNov 23, 2006
some might argue they are already.
jrbrewinNov 23, 2006
if you think that companies don't look at "free" alternatives in operating systems, and collaborative software then you're a lot crazier than your comment lets on. There is no single coherent open source alternative that can compete with the whole of windows, or the whole of office - and what there is that comes close certainly isn't open source, or free - it just may run on *nix. when you grow up and get out in to business you'll probably realise that. continue as you were until then.