[AT] Atis outage - the details

[Steve W.]

Howard Weeks wrote:
> There has been a movement among those that sell "services" to us 
> computer users to get funtionality and data off our PCs and into 
> their paid (off site to us) domain.
> 
> Common examples include:
> 
> web based email,
> offsite backup,
> photo storage,
> all types of offsite serving of applications and related data,
> and many others.
> 
> That is why mainframes died off in the 80s when the PCs became 
> affordable for the average user.  The mainframe world was not 
> responsive to the average user and the cost was prohibitive.
> 
> To the extent that people fall for this sales pitch, they should 
> watch their billfolds very carefully.  In addition, they will have 
> very limited ownership and control of their data that is offsite.
> 
> I understand that there are real advantages to some of these examples
> but I will not use them because of the ownership and control issues.
> 
> There is no way in hell that I am going to move in that direction.
> 
> Howard in GA

Take a look at Googles new OS. The entire thing runs in the "cloud" all
your applications and such are on their servers, so is all your work,
data and anything else. Not something I'm interested in.

-- 
Steve W.