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• zatoichi

  2009-08-01 18:30:36

  It's interesting to me how Roy slants the "Groupwise" story. In fact, it's not nearly the slamdunk that Roy would seem to like to think it is that Google will get the City of Los Angeles business: serious, and quite legitimate, concerns about security and privacy have been raised by a number of stakeholders:
  
  

  The migration would make Google, which hosts the servers running the applications, responsible for retaining and protecting sensitive health care and litigation data along with criminal and drug investigation records. Since the plan was proposed, critics from various organizations, including the Los Angeles Police Department, the city attorney's office and public interest groups have raised questions about the privacy and security implications of storing sensitive data in the cloud for access via the public Internet. The concerns received a fresh airing following the recent Twitter Inc. security breach caused by an attacker gaining access to a worker's e-mail on the Gmail system hosted by Google.

  
  
  Roy's happy, I guess, to sacrifice security and privacy as long as it hurts Novell. Luckily, the LAPD, the LA city attorney, and a lot of other people show better sense.

• JohnD

  2009-08-02 05:28:57

  Nice job linking back to your own stories and completely ignoring the profit posted last quarter in addition to the debt buy back that ran from 6/15 to 7/14. I'm guessing we'll find out how much debt is left during the next quarterly report. Of course instead of looking at Novell canceling a meeting as a smart business move, you view it as a sign of their demise. I enjoyed your creative "editing" of the LA story too.

• zatoichi

  2009-08-02 13:35:12

  All the News That's Fit to Misrepresent!