System migration may be the most dangerous thing you ever do
Pity the poor IT department that is about to migrate a key application from one platform to another. Or perform a major upgrade. Or worse, merge into another company's systems after being acquired. It's a recipe for disaster. Consider the plight of Mailbank.com, the Boulder, Colo.-based provider of e-mail and Web services under the name NetIdentity. Acquired recently by Toronto-based Tucows, the companies are moving, migrating, and otherwise homogenizing millions of e-mail accounts, including one of mine.
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NetIdentity sucks a horse
NetIdentity sucks a horse cock. They won't get any more of my money!Interesting comment on this
Interesting comment on this blog:http://working-as-designed.blogspot.com/2008/12/giving-up-on-net-identity.html
Where Ross Rader indicates a new service giving Netidenity customers control over their DNS by the end of January. Which if it materializes would mean we could point our Netidenity domain to any one of the thousands of web and e-mail hosts out there.
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