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The trouble with SaaS
The issues with running your business outside of your business are:
1) Reliability
2) Security
3) Control
Reliability. There are LOTS of pieces of technology between you and your bits. They all have to work in concert or no bits. If no bits, no business. Don't know that I'd want to go there as one major outage could offset any savings accumulated by using the service.
Security. Do you trust Google to keep your private bits private? Do you believe that all Google employees are honest and are overflowing with personal integrity? (No offense to anyone at Google intended but employee personal integrity issues do happen).
Control. How much control are you willing to give up in order to save some money? How do you get things into this that your business needs and are special to your business? Are you okay with being just like everyone else? If you are, where are your business' differentiators?
Just things to consider and think about before taking the plunge.