Re: [tlug] Google Apps for Work

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 03:48:38PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On 2016-05-10 07:31 +0200 (Tue), Christian Horn wrote:
> 
> > I agree, but the downside that one basically hands out the company
> > data should also be mentioned.
> 
> In many cases, leaving your documents stored on Google's servers is
> (sometimes considerably) more secure than usual document handling
> practices in companies that don't take special pains about security.

I had other parties in mind having "legal by American law"
access to the servers.


> > I wonder how smoothly one could work with multiple persons, 
> > using a versioning system for storing the shared document.
> 
> Brilliantly if the documents are in text format. (Millions of
> programmers around the world do this every day.)

Yes, but additionally seeing changes of others onthefly is nice.
The client would then have to poll for changes, or have kind of
agreement to get notified by the server about changes.

Chris