-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bradley Holt wrote: | it's still proprietary but at least there's an API (if you pay for the | more expensive package) so you can get at your data and potentially move | it if they do something to annoy you (certainly very difficult, but not | impossible). | [snip] | Google Apps for our business, for example. Perhaps there is a market for | an open-source Platform as a Service so that Software as a Service | applications wouldn't be locked into a particular vendor?
It bears noting that, yes, "access to the raw data in a meaningful format" ties for first place with the "data security" issue. Having to pay extra for access to something that's mine anyway offends my Delicate Sensibilities™. ;-) Cheers, - -sth sam hooker|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|http://www.noiseplant.com Yes, my television runs Linux, too. Yes, really. http://mythtv.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgEodUACgkQX8KByLv3aQ14vQCgmOfhv6l0wv1cCM/e4iYVLgu6 JYUAn0B+6GBeMYQfymEkTqBaPUXoRldI =w5X0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
