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Google swallows your Docs bill from Microsoft, pitches for user familiarity

P. Lee

Re: Why?

>I guess I need a kick to the head but why put your docs (and usually with proprietary info) on the public "cloud"... ???

Because many people have the ludicrous idea that only HTTP/S is safe to allow through the firewall, and SMB over a WAN stinks. Try getting IMAPS outbound through most corporate firewalls. Or IPSEC.

That means MS clients have nothing with which to access data and no decent server services for the WAN. MS are basically a LAN-based corporation. Yes, there is sharepoint, but what a monster that is.

SSH (ok, it came out - yesterday!) / sshfs, rsync, version control systems? Even VMS had auto-version updates.

There are still things to do. The Cloud basically creates identities based on email address, puts file permissions control in the hands of users and runs the lot over http. Its an http file server which isn't under IT admin control. The question is, how far do you trust your users to adhere to good policy?

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