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I can't imagine my employer deciding to allow company
e-mail to be dependent on some detached 3rd-party ...
I can see that. A company that provides software to help secure
corporate data will have a different attitude than one that provides
software to implement scalable Web interfaces - the type used to
implement cloud computing, for example.
In the case of Google, it seems that a bit of paranoia is justified. If
you build an email, document, or group calendar database on their
server, how do you get your data back if you want to bring it back
in-house? I'm not aware of any built-in "export" features, for example.
Plus, Google and Yahoo seem to have a business model geared toward
profiling customers by mining their data.
On the other hand, cloud computing offers economies of scale. IT
budgets are spent on powerful desktop & laptop systems, and PC
applications, which are the most costly type of computing available. A
3rd party service provider may come along and offer a comparable
solution at a fraction of the cost. And some companies are less
concerned about privacy than others.
My attitude is somewhere in the middle. If my data is private and
secure, and not mined for ulterior motives, and available for me to
export on demand, then I might go with a 3rd party service provider.
Nathan.
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