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Psystar Case Reveals Poor Email Archiving At Apple
Ian Lamont writes "Buried in the court filings of the recently concluded Psystar antitrust suit against Apple is a document that discussed Apple's corporate policy regarding employee email. Apparently, Apple has no company-wide policy for archiving, saving, or deleting email. This could potentially run afoul of e-discovery requirements, which have tripped up other companies that have been unable to produce emails and other electronic files in court. A lawyer quoted in the article (but not involved in the case) called Apple's retention policy 'negligent.' However, the issue did not help Psystar's lawsuit against Apple — a judge dismissed the case earlier this week."
This may be very bad for Intel in the intel vs amd case. As Intel may of give apple a unfair deal to keep amd off of apple systems.
Automatic archiving and retention is a real advantage of Exchange (or Notes) servers. In corporatations with good implementation of Exchange email is automatically stored and can be easily retrieved with appropriate security. Meeting invites and contacts are also centrally maintained. Add corporate-managed IM (Communications Server), effective fireware and network-enforcement you have a good security and auditability. All of these rules can easily be pushed by group policies via Active Directory.
Oh wait a minute, Macintoshes don't have any of those features.... no group policies, no lock down, and not even a real corporate-email server. And I bet that most of the user at Apple can run as adminstrator and install whatever they want.
Macs are fine for Sally homemaker and Joe (the plumber) small business but there's a reason why you don't see them in big companies (with the exception of a few isolated machines in the creative department.)
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We live in an era where ensuring plausable deniability is somehow considered a good reason not to do email. Who's surprised?
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Apple? No way. This is just a simplistic legal defense IMO.
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Where I work we have "No Pants Tuesday" and we all get drunk at lunch on Fridays and then wrestle naked in corridors and shit but we have no formal policy on the retention of email. Interesting.
Now wash your hands.
As a CTO, my document retention policy is very simple:
Everything is retained forever. That means every IM and e-mail that traverses the company network, server, or is even related to business. Period.
Yes, even spam is retained.