OK, so obviously I’m going to have a bit of a dig at Google suffering from a few problems on the email front (and apparently some weird stuff on the Groups front). Of course this is because the typical news coverage they get is ‘Ooh, they have a new Favicon’ (Come on BBC…) or ‘Hey, they did/did not discover Atlantis”. Er, no, but they did discover an enormous amount of free PR from a ho-hum feature addition to Google Earth.
The more worrying possibilities of information control tend not to make the mainstream news.
Anyhoo, from seems that the sensible GMail users have been using Gears to good effect. That is, they’ve used it to get their email offline, as in client, as in software sense.
Now, any system can fall over, or anything can happen in the middle to prevent access or whatever. The problem with the pure SaaS approach is that it leaves you blind as well as functionally incapable, with – likely – a wider effect. That’s cool for my junk mail address – I can live with it. Not so much if your business depends on it.
S+S even more redux:
Alright, back to seeing if I can find the real Atlantis…
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