Downside of Saas
Cnet: Google killing Jaiku, Dodgeball, Notebook, other projects
So ?
- Google is also affected by the economic situation. Even “monster” like Google has to refocus when economic downturn… (note that they also laid off 100 recruiters)
- If you were using one of those services you better prepare to move to another one, and hopefully you can export your datas in a nice and re-usable way. Remeber Richard Stallman warned us about Cloud Computing, this is a perfect example… a service is discontinue and you are stuck! In this case it happens with a notice beforehand but what if the service is shut down directly ?
Read also on Google Code Blog: Changes for Jaiku and Farewell to Dodgeball and Mashup Editor