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   by sunchild 17y ago

   JungleDisk offers all of this for 4$/user/month.
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   Yeah, but it: (a) requires paid licenses, and (b) runs on a troublesome OS. It's also an absurd waste of time and resources just to convert a text format. I'd just as soon run it through Google Docs and scrape the result, etc.
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   I suspected as much. Microsoft seems to have started from the GUI and worked their way down to an API.
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   That's silly: if it's an open standard, I can migrate off of it. If it's a single-vendor closed alternative to open web protocols, I'd be worried. Now that at least one very popular browser has no Flash support, I'd also worry about that.
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   On point 1 above: self-hosting is not necessarily the answer either. It really depends on the underlying architecture.
6. 666.▲
   by sunchild 17y ago

   Or this? http://poi.apache.org/
7. 667.▲
   by sunchild 17y ago

   I disagree. A Flash-based presentation layer is a liability, since it's vendor-locked.
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   A few criticisms from someone who has tried everything in this market: 1. Security is a weak point. From their FAQ: "Documents uploaded to crocodoc are assigned a unique, unguessable URL (e.g. http://crocodoc.com/gQlo2g ), which you can
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   by sunchild 17y ago

   Sounds like http://www.instapaper.com/
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    Filing a patent != having a patent. The Sony device is clearly prior art. I had one of those Sony's, BTW. I can't believe anyone would compare this device favorably vs. an iPad. That's willful ignorance, I guess.
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    Subversion is better than Git because many people use Git in a centralized manner? Wouldn't that make Git better, since it offers more options?
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    JungleDisk + S3 will lock network shares at the file level. In theory, you could accomplish offline access in JD with syncing, but I don't yet trust their sync features for anything critical.
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    Also, just about every SLA is pure window dressing. I know this because IAAL.
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    While I agree with ALL of the OP's points, I also wonder why any serious engineer would even bother reading these kinds of requests in the first place. It's usually obvious within the first few words whether a potential client "gets it" or
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    When Engine Yard and Heroku offer this kind of service, all you hear about from corporate IT is vulnerabilities in the VM layer and lack of security in the "cloud". But when Microsoft offers it, it's the next big thing. So sad.
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    You get what you pay for. Google Apps for Enterprise is $50/yr. Not sure what you pay for feedburner, but the bottom line is that Google doesn't sell support. You email them and you wait. If it doesn't work for you, go elsewhere. It's o
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    by sunchild 17y ago

    And how many of these same IT managers route every last piece of corporate email through Postini? The hypocrisy and FUD in corporate IT is out of control. Most IT managers today are survivors from the days when "IT" was basically a blue-col