Sunday, July 27, 2008

Guardian: AOL says it will 'sunset' Xdrive

You're serving up a degree of FUD.

Any company that has a dependence on a single supplier, or supplies to a single source is at risk from the other company going bust or pulling the plug on their key product. This risk is as old as the hills, and is not new to cloud computing. It is fair to say the cloud computing is immature, but there was a time when relying on a single computer was common place, but now it is normal to deliver a service from several computers across a network.

XDrive itself was primarily a consumer service, and it was unlikely many companies had it at the centre of their business.

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