Mashable reported yesterday that Gmail was down for some
users. Story HERE.
I guess my take is so? I am a believer in internet based services. Software,
hardware, infrastructure, anything as a service, in fact I’ll even let you call
it cloud. But just because some service I use is not available all the time is
not news. The fact that someone thinks it is news tells me, we ain’t there yet.
We still think it is a voodoo fad.
Without checking, I’m sure somewhere in the United States
today, power, internet, cable, and water are out somewhere. Mashable did not do
a story on any of those. Why? Those are accepted technologies. We know, even
understand that the cable will go out, we are only really pissed if it is on
game day. Being geeks, we might even Tweet that we are upset with the cable
Gods, but we don’t question the decision we made to move from over the air
network TV.
I would also guess, (without checking), that most
companies who switched from an in-house email solution to a hosted solution
have had less downtime with their hosted solution, than the reboot time for
their previous email solution. My point? We are there, it is time for the media
to treat these web based technologies the same as installed technologies.
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