Comments on: Google Apps http://www.brandondarling.com/blog/google-apps/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:25:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: TFC http://www.brandondarling.com/blog/google-apps/#comment-40 TFC Fri, 09 May 2008 18:12:49 +0000 http://www.brandondarling.com/blog/google-apps/#comment-40 There are obvious cost (and to varying degrees convenience) advantages to using Google apps. That said, relying on them for a corporate application of any size puts several layers of infrastructure that you cannot manage between workers and productivity. I realize stuff happens at every level, but if things go awry at the LAN level at least you can be proactive. Lose a T1 or ISP server or any other link between you and your app (or remote files) and you wait. Maybe not a big deal if your competitors are also sitting on their hands, but that scenario is unlikely. Next, I realize it can be argued that security is an illusion. Still, I can watch something near better than I can watch something far. Naive? Call it my security blanket. There are obvious cost (and to varying degrees convenience) advantages to using Google apps. That said, relying on them for a corporate application of any size puts several layers of infrastructure that you cannot manage between workers and productivity.

I realize stuff happens at every level, but if things go awry at the LAN level at least you can be proactive. Lose a T1 or ISP server or any other link between you and your app (or remote files) and you wait. Maybe not a big deal if your competitors are also sitting on their hands, but that scenario is unlikely.

Next, I realize it can be argued that security is an illusion. Still, I can watch something near better than I can watch something far. Naive? Call it my security blanket.

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