Are you being (Web)serviced?

Thursday, January 31. 2008

Are you being (Web)serviced?

Two conversations re going the whole hog to web based services yesterday:

(i) Enterprise 2.0h no - chatting to CIO of a financial institution - noted that its all fine for low criticality, lightweight apps - but if you rely on the data in any way, or there is hefty processing power required, web based systems cannot yet cut the mustard. CIO's don't get promoted for giving users cool stuff to play with, they get sacked when companies can't do the work, or lose the data, or fail to service clients. Microsoft is safe awhile longer, easy on the shorts.....

(ii) Salesforce.con - A small virtual company that uses Salesforce, and....it fell over. Or the network did. Whatever. Finding someone to sort it out , to own the problem, was "interesting".

And today I read that someone ran an anchor through Flag's Indian cable, thus cutting 'em off. Imagine if they had all their stuff on Google Docs in the US of A?

Posted by Alan Patrick at 10:05 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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