Comments on: Where are you left if the Cloud goes down? http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/08/12/where-are-you-left-if-the-cloud-goes-down/ Distracting the Mind with Information Overload Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:25:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: When Google Goes Down, Twitter Catches Fire | Cynosure http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/08/12/where-are-you-left-if-the-cloud-goes-down/comment-page-1/#comment-69542 When Google Goes Down, Twitter Catches Fire | Cynosure Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:06:40 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2187#comment-69542 [...] Where are you left if the Cloud goes down? Share/Bookmark this post: [...] [...] Where are you left if the Cloud goes down? Share/Bookmark this post: [...]

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/08/12/where-are-you-left-if-the-cloud-goes-down/comment-page-1/#comment-69431 Elizabeth Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:38:13 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2187#comment-69431 the Gmail outage sure did cause a big fuss. I was inconvenienced by not being able to retrieve an email that I needed to refer to for a post I was writing, but fortunately I wasn't actually losing money. I see what you are saying though. the Gmail outage sure did cause a big fuss. I was inconvenienced by not being able to retrieve an email that I needed to refer to for a post I was writing, but fortunately I wasn’t actually losing money. I see what you are saying though.

]]> By: Nathan Pledger http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/08/12/where-are-you-left-if-the-cloud-goes-down/comment-page-1/#comment-69420 Nathan Pledger Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:01:30 +0000 http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2187#comment-69420 Exactly why I don't touch these services for business use. Commercial solutions all the way. If it is "on the cloud" then I pay for it to have an SLA. I use GMail for my personal mail, which is excellent, but is currently riddled with JavaScript errors and is very close to getting binned. Despite what people sout, the web is not meant for desktop apps. JavaScript is only now starting to mature as browsers have finally begun to standardise. But there seems to be no quality control in the cloud apps like GMail, Facebook, etc. to make it worth any serious use. Exactly why I don’t touch these services for business use. Commercial solutions all the way. If it is “on the cloud” then I pay for it to have an SLA.

I use GMail for my personal mail, which is excellent, but is currently riddled with JavaScript errors and is very close to getting binned.

Despite what people sout, the web is not meant for desktop apps. JavaScript is only now starting to mature as browsers have finally begun to standardise. But there seems to be no quality control in the cloud apps like GMail, Facebook, etc. to make it worth any serious use.

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