Comments on: I Guess It’s Not My Data…

By: Brian in Poland

Brian in Poland — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:04:32 +0000

I don’t understand the outrage. For $20 a month, you can’t expect great support.

Furthermore, you seem to be bashing them for not designing the site well. All I can think is that they designed it how they designed it, and if they didn’t mislead the purchaser, then they did no wrong.

I myself have been physically outraged on a few occasions when I bumped up against horrible programming decisions that blocked or extremely frustrated a task for me. But I always directed my rage at the decision maker that purchased the shoddy IT work from lowest bidders, not the IT workers.

By: Jeffrey Powers

Jeffrey Powers — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:45:37 +0000

If it would have been that involved I would have made a real conscious effort to get that information. Thank goodness I didn’t have to….

By: Peter J

Peter J — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:12:30 +0000

That’s the problem with outsourcing and the whole ‘cloud computing’ philosophy. Many companies no longer own their own data. It will only get worse if companies build ERP systems on Google or MS or Amazon’s cloud. I’ve worked on multiple projects where the work was outsourced, the servers were located elsewhere and in the end, somebody else actually owns you data.

You’re lucky this was a simple website. Imagine working on an ERP system where you have only view access to all the customer, finance, sales, marketing, and so on data. And half the time you can’t even get that access.

I honestly think people who brag about cloud computing never actually realize how hard it becomes the larger that other system you no longer control gets. When you don’t really control your own data, it’s never a good thing in the long run.