albo - 3:03 pm on Dec 25, 2009 (gmt 0)

It's disturbing (to me) that governments store their info on commercial enterprise computers instead of their own.

But then (as @subhankarray implies) a government agency's own computer, used as a "tool", must be a computer bought from a commercial company, using commercial software.

Government agencies are still faced by the need of some commonality of data.

No "ideal" world in which government agencies share a non-commercial cloud of hardware and software. Perhaps it is fair that GOOG play a role in the solution.

[edited by: albo at 3:08 pm (utc) on Dec. 25, 2009]