snydeq writes "This week's Google outages left several Google Apps admins in the lurch — many of whom are second-guessing their advocacy for making the switch to hosted apps, Juan Carlos Perez reports. The outages, which affected both Gmail and Apps, 'could serve as a deterrent to some IT and business managers who might not be ready to ditch conventional software packages that are installed on their servers,' Perez writes. 'If we began to experience a similar outage more than about two or three business hours per quarter, we'd probably make Google Apps and Gmail a backup solution to a locally hosted mail system, if we used it at all,' said one Apps admin. 'And it would likely be years before we'd try a cloud-based collaborative system again from any vendor.' The outages, coupled with recent Apple and Amazon cloud issues, are being viewed by some as big wins for Microsoft." Link to Original Source
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