When you use a web-based application, your data will be safer. Disk crashes won’t be a thing of the past, but users won’t hear about them anymore. They’ll happen within server farms. And companies offering web-based applications will actually do backups — not only because they’ll have real system administrators worrying about such things, but because an ASP that does lose people’s data will be in big, big trouble. When people lose their own data in a disk crash, they can’t get that mad, because they only have themselves to be mad at. When a company loses their data for them, they’ll get a lot
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