On Sep 27, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Virgil Bierschwale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Big difference. > If its in house, and my company is thinking about closing its doors, I would > know about it, unless of course they pulled an enron, then it isn't. > > But when it is a separate company, you have no way of knowing how stable > that company is and many times you will not hear that they are having > problems until it is too late Well, yeah, but how often is that the reason for data loss, or loss of availability for your app? These guys didn't shut their doors and disappear. They announced that they were closing, and gave people time (not enough, IMO) to transfer their stuff elsewhere. Compare that to data stored locally, with a crashed hard drive. What sort of notice do you get? ;-) -- Ed Leafe _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

