On Apr 20, 2005, at 9:16 AM, Stewart Stremler wrote:
"Would you rather have your data-storage service and IMAP provider lose all of your data and all of your email, or would you rather have your machine blow up?"
Umm, I'll take "Neither" for $200, Alex ...
However, Gmail is less likely to lose my email data than even I am. I do backups occasionally. Gmail has everything in full RAID configuration and will effectively never crash.
You /do/ have different non-technical users.
Web+Email doesn't need a computer. It needs a thin client. You can do away with local disk (except for cashing) entirely.
I agree. Almost every normal user I know would rather use the normal web interface for these than any local client.
The non-technical users I have in mind have documents, spreadsheets,
financial information, email, and digital pictures (lots and lots) as
data. If the system were to gulp all that data and throw it away,
they'd be unhappy. If the system were rendered unusable (which happens),
they're not happy, but as their data isn't lost, it's no big deal.
The only one of those that still needs a local client are digital pictures. Everything else *could* be a web application.
-a
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