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You said what I was going to say and you're absolutely correct. This must be the stupidest comment and opinion I've read in a long time: The skeptical attitude

You said what I was going to say and you're absolutely correct. This must be the stupidest comment and opinion I've read in a long time: The skeptical attitude toward Google was best summed up by Donna Trivison, Director of IT for Ursuline College, who wrote, “There seems to be some conventional wisdom that Google is the answer to what’s been wrong over the years in the Microsoft universe. That kind of thinking may be dangerous. As consumers of technology we need to keep each and every business partner honest and working for us. Handing trust carte blanche over to Google because, as the wisdom goes, they are good citizens, seems misguided to me. If I had to pick one, it would probably be Microsoft because they have withstood the scrutiny their misdeeds have landed them. Google remains, for the most part, untested.”

DannoHung 17y ago
She must have a fucking Klein bottle for a brain.
maukdaddy 17y ago
That attitude is so amazingly pervasive throughout all IT. The notion of only buying something that is "tested" is due to most managers' risk aversion. They are not willing to bet their jobs on some company or technology until x% of their peers have already done it.
- bsgamble 17y ago
  You are totally right about the pervasive attitude throughout corporate IT organizations. The only point I would question is the "..willing to lose their jobs.." part. Most corporate IT orgs have their story so well prepared to deflect blame in the case of failures that employees are rarely, if ever terminated. Instead the business takes the failure on the chin and all of us in technology have to deal with the reduction in credibility.
  - rbanffy 17y ago
    There is a tendency the higher profile a failed project is, the highest the chance to redefine success based on its results. This stems from the pain of firing the high-level executive that signed the check. The larger the check, the higher the executive is in the corporate ladder and the more painful the firing, thus, the executive is never fired because the project cannot fail.
codexon 17y ago
While the last part of Donna's answer is questionable in reasoning, there is no doubt that handing all your data to Google on a cloud is potentially dangerous as we have all seen in the recent outages for Gmail and Google App Engine.

DannoHung 17y ago

She must have a fucking Klein bottle for a brain.

maukdaddy 17y ago

That attitude is so amazingly pervasive throughout all IT. The notion of only buying something that is "tested" is due to most managers' risk aversion. They are not willing to bet their jobs on some company or technology until x% of their peers have already done it.

bsgamble 17y ago
You are totally right about the pervasive attitude throughout corporate IT organizations. The only point I would question is the "..willing to lose their jobs.." part. Most corporate IT orgs have their story so well prepared to deflect blame in the case of failures that employees are rarely, if ever terminated. Instead the business takes the failure on the chin and all of us in technology have to deal with the reduction in credibility.
- rbanffy 17y ago
  There is a tendency the higher profile a failed project is, the highest the chance to redefine success based on its results. This stems from the pain of firing the high-level executive that signed the check. The larger the check, the higher the executive is in the corporate ladder and the more painful the firing, thus, the executive is never fired because the project cannot fail.

codexon 17y ago

While the last part of Donna's answer is questionable in reasoning, there is no doubt that handing all your data to Google on a cloud is potentially dangerous as we have all seen in the recent outages for Gmail and Google App Engine.