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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

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