If Google offers mail, documents (word processing, spreadsheet), web pages, blogging tools, collaboration tools for free, why would anyone try to do these things in house?
I can see keeping sensitive data a little more secure by using server space that you pay to have secure. But how much of student work is really that sensitive?
I can see an advantage to someone else running the servers that hold the student work, run e-mail, host web pages... the price is right.
Has up-time been a problem? I have only heard of one time that G-Mail went down for maybe two hours. Is there more that I am not hearing about? I think that would be an amazing record for anyone and I am very amazed when I think of the number of users.
I know our IT staff is about one download away from being very seriously overworked. Is this something that would help us farm some things out?
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