Aug 11th, 2008 |
In the collaborative space, it’s easy for an enterprise to get in bed with one vendor. Free web apps are particularly attractive, but unfortunately they often come with a dear price. Your company’s data.
For the sake of example, let’s pick on Google and GMail. Migrating over to a new email client after you’ve been using GMail is no easy to task. If you grow from an SMB to a large enterprise overnight, it’s difficult to change which hosted app you use. Same goes for all those Google Docs you utilize on a day to day basis. All those attractive and free applications have an ugly side - locking in your data is an important part of the way these vendors do business.
