Brandon Wybenga's Blog
Saying that your business should never, never, ever use cloud-based
applications instead of desktop or network/server based ones is about as
ridiculous as saying that cloud-based applications will eventually replace IT
completely. Mostly cloud computing is a way to provide an application at low
startup costs in exchange for revenue over time.
With an article that begins with "Cloud computing apps are for suckers. If
there is an alternative that runs locally on your own machine, it will always
be better," John C Dvorak, seems to be going from "baiting Mac users" to
"baiting Google users."
But let's just take the argument at face value. Some of the points he makes
are good ones – specifically, the ones with performance issues.
I don't care if you have 30-megabit-per-second service, you'll get flaky
performance from most online apps, especially if t... (more)