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 So earlier in this week this lenghty article was posted at Onlinjournal.  It talked about how Obama quietly signed an order to dismiss the case going on to disclose the missing email from the Whitehouse during the Bush Administration.  The investigation to find the emails has cost so far 10 Million USD .. a staggering amount of money considering the fact that the emails were pretty much all found in the most unexpected places … IN PST FILES ON THE LOCAL MACHINES.

It took 10 Million dollars to figure that out?  I think that any reasonable administrator would know that there were no items in the mailboxes which generally means they were automatically downloaded to the machines.  Secondly .. it would take a quick check to verify that this was the case.  10 Million dollars?  Someone got a deal there …

To me it proves again that PST files should be banned from corporate environments.  I encourage you to read the article.

This question on one of the Microsoft forums sparked my curiousity:

 http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistahardware/thread/720108ee-0a9c-4090-b62d-bbd5cb1a7605

Particularly this section got me wondering:

“I’ve noticed that as I copy data/install programs on my Laptop, the weight of the Laptop increases. My ask, what is the weight/file ratio? So for example, how many GB’s = 6oz?”    

My RSS feeds gave me the following article http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=171581&WT.svl=news2_1 from Byte and Switch.

I suspect that the coming 12 months will give us further market consolidation .. there are about 70 vendors at the moment trying to grab a bit of marketshare with both Symantec and Mimosa Systems fighting for the #1 spot.