On 12/14/2011 10:04 AM, Andrew Stirling wrote: > BEA is a very large UK contractor. > > Defence contractor BAE Systems has ditched plans to adopt Microsoft > Office365, the online version of the Microsoft Office suite. > > The supplier could not guarantee the company's data would not leave > Europe, in spite of operating a datacentre in Dublin. > > "We were going to adopt Office365 and the lawyers said we could not do > it," said Charles Newhouse, head of strategy and design at BAE Systems, > speaking during a panel debate at the Business Cloud Summit 2011 in London. > > http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240112018/Office365-fails-BAes-legal-team >
Well, it makes sense to me. I mean, with remote backups to other locations, and probably that with redundancy meant that the data could be ANYWHERE with web access (but obviously in a stable, civilized country, but perhaps not Europe). -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/4ee8cea4.8080...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
