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On 2006-07-12T08:35+0100 John Daragon wrote: > > Just because your documents sit on your disk doesn't mean they're secure > > from prying eyes. Your computer has network access doesn't it? > Our documents sit in our document management system. Access is > rigorously controlled, tracked, audited. As are revisions. We do this > stuff for a living, and our data is either valuable or confidential or > both. I'm not sure it would be legal (let alone sensible) for us to > entrust it to a third party disk space supplier. Practically all my data is in subversion and it's probably better maintained than your data. :) My point is your network is on the Internet. You deal with customers via the same network, the Internet. You deliver this 'valuable' data via the same insecure network. Who is the amateur? Your sense of security is a myth. > > Do you send emails with documents attached? > Only the ones we've decided we want people to see. This decision is > itself audited. I don't think this is unusual in non-amateur installations. Bureaucracy can be added to a Web/network application. > > Most people currently invest their trust to Microsoft. People might want > > to take the leap and start trusting other companies too and reap the > > rewards. > It's *nothing* to do with Microsoft! We're absolutely pragmatic where it > comes to software selection. Scalix? Absolutely. What is scalix supposed to mean? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html