Google keeps telling us its applications are business ready, but again this morning we have learned otherwise, thanks to another Gmail outage. OK, it has been a bad week, but a Google News outage on Tuesday, followed by a Gmail failure today is just too much to bear.
I know all the excuses, from how huge demand makes Google a "victim of its own success" to "what do you expect for free?" Nevertheless, they are just excuses.
Rather than adding features that add only questionable value to our lives, such as Sidewiki and Fast Flip news, maybe Google needs to stop, take a deep breath, and focus on quality and reliability for products many of us use every day?
Today's Gmail outage appears to have been much smaller than the huge outage in February or the smaller outage on Sept. 1. Of course, we only have Google's word for what happens on its network.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/172575/
I know all the excuses, from how huge demand makes Google a "victim of its own success" to "what do you expect for free?" Nevertheless, they are just excuses.
Rather than adding features that add only questionable value to our lives, such as Sidewiki and Fast Flip news, maybe Google needs to stop, take a deep breath, and focus on quality and reliability for products many of us use every day?
Today's Gmail outage appears to have been much smaller than the huge outage in February or the smaller outage on Sept. 1. Of course, we only have Google's word for what happens on its network.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/172575/