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Zembly will be suspended on November 30th, 2009
- Sukotto 17y agoNeither the linked article, nor the "continuously updated FAQs" explain why they are closing. What happened? Why are they closing?
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoPart of sun. Sun is going to oracle land. Cutting costs/things that seem useless.
- Freebytes 17y agoI have never heard of this service, but it looked interesting from examining the site. Three years is a long time to be in 'beta' for sure, though.
- unohoo 17y agozembly will be closing down - who cares ?
- dpcan 17y agoProbably very few - it appears to be more about another dead SaaS company and the question of - what happens to the IP/data?
- ynniv 17y agoSAAS FTL. We managed to avoid customer backlash by propping MSN Music open for an extra couple of years, but companies folding with user data is eventually going to sour public opinion of cloud services. It will probably take 5 to 10 years, so no worries.
- ovi256 17y agoHopefully in that time, some kind of data inter-change standard will appear, making this point moot. Imagine import/export compatibility between all popular issue tracking apps. Given that most follow the ticket paradigm (as they share design pedigree) this would not be unthinkable from a technical viewpoint. However, it may be an uphill battle from an economical/political viewpoint : companies may not find this openness to their benefit.
- jacquesm 17y agoSo, open source the code and make sure that the stuff that was built there stays alive. If you don't do that then anybody else trying to follow in your footsteps will have to deal with the 'remember what happened to zembly' stigma. If you host something you'd better be prepared to be in for the long haul, and to have an 'end-of-life' policy in place before you even start. In fact, people probably should not be using services that do not have an end-of-life policy.
- dantheman 17y agoI've never seen a public end of life policy. I know that some companies that use a startup's technology often include a clause that if they go out of business the customer company will be able to buy the technology at a reasonable price. Do you know of any examples of such a policy?
- jacquesm 17y agoI'm going to make that a special issue of sorts, I really think that would go a long way towards dealing with plenty of the problems that I see in cloud services and third party hosted solutions. This really needs attention.