Yale had made the decision to move from its own Horde email system to Google Apps for Education (a suite which includes Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs), but when presenting the plan to its administrators and faculty members, the Information Technology Services department immediately encountered resistance, reports the Yale Daily News.
Said computer science professor Michael Fischer:
Concerns about the switch to Gmail fell into three main categories: problems with “cloud computing” (the transfer of information between virtual servers on the Internet), technological risks and downsides, and ideological issues.
The concerns come in the wake of a very media-happy year for Google, which has seen a groundbreaking squabble with China, hacking attacks, and the rollout of an extremely controversial social networking service in Buzz. Those past problems have to be kept in mind while reading through some of these objections, because otherwise they seem, well, pretty weak.
Google...
Said computer science professor Michael Fischer:
Concerns about the switch to Gmail fell into three main categories: problems with “cloud computing” (the transfer of information between virtual servers on the Internet), technological risks and downsides, and ideological issues.
The concerns come in the wake of a very media-happy year for Google, which has seen a groundbreaking squabble with China, hacking attacks, and the rollout of an extremely controversial social networking service in Buzz. Those past problems have to be kept in mind while reading through some of these objections, because otherwise they seem, well, pretty weak.
Google...
- 3/31/2010
- by Dan Nosowitz
- Fast Company
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