One of the promised land issues in cloud deployments is that you never have to worry about upgrades.
Obligatory cloud paranoia post to justify the Mac Book from www.vladville.com
One of the promised land issues in cloud deployments is that you never have to worry about upgrades.
The reality is vastly different. Just ask the Sidekick folks about how well upgrades go. And on the Google doc front, just because someone else updates doesn't mean that the problems go away...
Bugs hit Google Docs after recent upgrade:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139350/Bugs_hit_Google_Docs_after_recent_upgrade
Bottom line, I don't care how big or small you are, there are risks in updating. Period. Whether we do it, he does it, they do it, we all deal with the resulting aftermath.
Read the complete post at http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2009/10/14/one-of-the-promised-land-issues-in-cloud-deployments-is-that-you-never-have-to-worry-about-upgrades.aspx