Few factors that come to my mind: -- in Google.ch search, locally located sites have a preference. You can also select to search among Swiss-based sites only.
-- Lots and lots of people prefer to speak their native language when they call for technical support -- Sometimes the physical proximity is important -- Swiss Copyright laws are a bit different than those in EU, and that allows such companies as Rapidshare.com to reside in here. just my 2 cents :) > >From: Gregory Agerba <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Fri, March 12, 2010 7:25:08 PM >Subject: [swinog] ICT economy in Switzerland > > >Hello List, >Following a debate I had with some people, I am just throwing a global >question about Switzerland and ICT services since I am thrilled by that >question and looking for various points of view. >What are according to you the real advantages of having your datacenter >located in Switzerland rather than Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Netherlands >or France? I am asking the question widely, not only if the datacenter have a >more serious approach, but also in general: stability in politics, government, >laws, people, hardware, quality of services, safety of data, data protection, >prices and anything else would be interesting to be developed... >BR, >Gregory _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog

