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Carbonite, the consumer/small business online backup company, has struck a deal with Sun to piggyback on Java and offer a free 30-day trial of its widgetry to anybody who upgrades to the latest version of Java or downloads in for the first time.
Terms were not disclosed.
Java is said to be on 800 million PCs worldwide, an installed base Sun has never exploited, and Carbonite said it's trying to educate folk about the sanity of backing up.
The data leaving the local computer is encrypted and transmitted to Carbonite's server using HTTPS.
Gartner says the market should be worth $820 million in 2013, up from $300 million last year.
A Carbonite subscription cost $55 a year. Oracle, Sun's soon-to-be owner, is unlikely to interfere with the arrangement provided there's money in it.
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JacoBite Jim 08/05/09 08:56:41 PM EDT | |||
I'll be curt and to the point, I don't more dreck-ware in my computer! I'm quite capable of backing up own stuff (it's call ACRONIS, it works, and I don't have to stream anything over an internet connection that probably won't be accessible if/when I need to do this anyway) I don't trust online backups. It's only secure until a 12 year old who gets bored tries to hack their server or some damned terrorist with a strategically placed bug takes a whack at it one day. Sadly enough Oracle probably won't a thing like the story above says. I don't like it when people I don't know from Adam are brave with my Strawbs! |
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