[p2p-research] Good Post in NING

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Franz,

we had extensive discussions on the mailing list, but not blog discussion,

I will post this one,

Michel
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Franz Nahrada <f.nahrada at reflex.at> wrote:

> Michel I think its necessary to issue a statement. I am not able to follow
> p2p blog regularly but I found no mentioning of the NING crisis back to
> 4th of Apiril.
>
> The following is the message I find important!
>
> "NING issues a wake up call to all of us"
>
> last comment on
>
> http://blog.ning.com/2010/04/mythbusters-three-things-we-arent-doing-on-may-4.html#comment
>
>
> "Opportunities for comments were closed on the other pages I visited where
> Ning has announced the upcoming changes.
>
> My reaction is that organizations, groups, schools, non-profits, and
> governments need to take this as a wake-up call.
>
> We need to reassess the position of SaaS and cloud computing services in
> our business strategies.
>
> We either need to either run the business critical services such as social
> media communities on our own servers or operate these in environments that
> we can control.
>
> We also need to ensure that our content is maintained in an open standard
> that can be migrated out of that environment to new platforms as the need
> arises.
>
> These two decisions are independent of whether or not the service is a
> free or premium service."
>
> [ http://publications.ning.com ]Ray Matthews
>
>
>


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