Google Apps Outages Officially a Part of Our Lives
Found on eWEEK on Thursday, 16 October 2008
Google's Gmail suffers an outage, while the search engine's Start Page suffers a bug, disconnecting users from their content. The blips cast another pall over SAAS, cloud computing and Web services at large.
Indeed, some Google Apps users scoff outright at others who put mission-critical business operations in the hands of SAAS from Google.
If someone uses Gmail for all business mail, then he's in no position to make any demands. He put the fate of his company into the hands of a free email service (and one from Google even). It's not like Google is "the Internet" and magically keeps everything up and running.