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Outages Leave Google Apps Admins In the Hotseat
snydeq writes "This week's Google outages left several Google Apps admins in the lurch — and many of them are second-guessing their advocacy for making the switch to hosted apps, InfoWorld reports. The outages, which affected both Gmail and Apps, 'could serve as a deterrent to some IT and business managers who might not be ready to ditch conventional software packages that are installed on their servers,' according to the article. 'If we began to experience a similar outage more than about two or three business hours per quarter, we'd probably make Google Apps and Gmail a backup solution to a locally hosted mail system, if we used it at all,' said one Apps admin. 'And it would likely be years before we'd try a cloud-based collaborative system again from any vendor.' Coupled with recent Apple and Amazon cloud issues, these Google outages are being viewed by some as big wins for Microsoft."
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Do any of the /. janitors actually know what the term means? I always thought the whole point of an editor was to, you know, edit things, and take out bits that don't make sense.
If you need an AV you are doing something wrong. Get a real OS and you get rid of most of your problems.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Isn't the point of M$ Exchange and friends that it's easy to use and does not require an expensive operator?
If hardware's the problem, how do you explain the reliability of Google, the Internet Archive, Wikipedia and other users of commodity hardware?
How reliable is your exchange server, really? This thread started off with someone pointing out how much more reliable Google was than the best of M$ solutions. Is it really good or are you some kind of M$ munchkin that has to smear hardworking administrators to make up for the M$'s horrible reputation.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
Then shut the fuck up.