> I do of course know the marketing message behind such services, but it > just takes a stupid tech having a bad day and your day suddenly gets > really bad ;-)
You've never been a stupid tech having a bad day yourself? I know I have. And sometimes that leads to funny stories, which I won't go into here. But many cloud services again have levels of redundancy that protect them from the individual bad days of stupid techs usually. It would take multiple stupid techs having really bad days in most cases. Not that this couldn't happen, of course, but to me, storage and email are things that work very well as utility services - they are likely to be more efficient and more reliable than me doing the same thing, in the same way that I'd rather rely on the power company than run my own generator 24/7 (although I might want a generator for outages). Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347102 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
