In my opinion, my TCO is simple. Build on the cloud because it is the future of all systems. Even if I left the data local, what guarantee do I have that should I ever have access to sensitive govt data will I be guaranteed my personal safety, forget about silly things like DOS attacks on a site? Even you know the answer to this...Mr Wikileaks is still unharmed in the UK. Have you seen any unmarked landrovers rotating the jamaa from station to station while the family is denied access to his whereabouts, or a judge who is forcing the police commissioner to produce the gentleman in court because his family fear for his life? There's a big difference between such matters. Me thots. :-)

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:

As an individual, what is your TCO given a CR-48 vs a standard Compaq Notebook?
What happens when the US decides that Aki Kenya Limited funded a terrorist organization called Wikileaks and therefore Google and Microsoft should hand in data stored by AKL for their perusal .