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That's the elimination of server hardware costs, though I can't imagine just chucking stuff in the cloud with no local backup. (Amazon has lost data before.)

There's still a client PC cost...

There are also the times when either Amazon (or Google Apps & Docs) or the network goes down and you have the odd thousand people sitting around wondering what to do. That's always lots of fun.



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