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Cloud computing and the issue of privacy.

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Cloud computing remains a promising solution to the challenges of on-premises installation of enterprise applications. The increasing interest in software as a service (SaaS) as a way to control some information technology costs is evident in the Google (google.com)/Salesforce.com tie-up.

For those of you unfamiliar with the jargon and the players in the growing trend to shift from traditional on-premises software to cloud-based software, let's work through some terminology.

First, cloud computing means that an application sits on a server in a data center. The twist is that the software vendor assumes responsibility for maintaining the ...

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