Yale outsources email to Google

[Joseph Esposito <espositoj@gmail.com>]

The outsourcing trend continues:

http://j.mp/968Sov

Yale is outsourcing its email service to Google.  The question I 
have is, How long before all enterprise applications (including 
those for higher ed) are outsourced?  I would think soon.

Calling it "outsourcing" may be misleading.  Better to use the 
industry term:  SAAS, or Software as a Service.  I am puzzled why 
even as enterprises move to SAAS and Cloud computing, there is 
still a centripetal pull to have code written and maintained 
internally.

The small company I now work for, with employees on two 
continents and clients on three, is committed completely to Cloud 
computing, running the entire operation on Google Apps.  No 
employee keeps any data on his or her hard drive.  Presumably 
iTunes is the exception.

Joe Esposito

[NOTE: Yes, outsourcing the student service.  Perhaps if that 
works well, the faculty and staff service will be moved, but it's 
too early to know. Ann Okerson]