Enterprise applications: how do you cope when the web can't?
Recent reports suggest that the web may soon suffer from overload. While this may be political scaremongering, it highlights the need for enterprise-class web applications to have a fail-safe fallback if the web ever lets us down.
The Bahrain government has signed a deal with Microsoft to donate Windows Live to every one of its citizens. Yes the free Windows' live! Something doesn't add up. Or has the battle for control of Web 2.0 moved onto another front?