Q3: Security and trust are two key values that large enterprises are looking for when it comes to storing their data on a remote server. In what way are you providing sturdy security and how are you able to get enterprises to trust you with their data lying on your servers?

A3: The issue of large enterprises storing their documents on ThinkFree is very much present. We are backing them in two ways. First of all, we are providing top level security and trying to also do some education in the matter.

	Software as a Service is as secure if not in some ways more secure than what you experience inside of a Corporate Infrastructure

I had a meeting with salesforce.com and one of the points that they made during the meeting, was that software as a service is as secure if not in some ways more secure than what you experience inside of a Corporate Infrastructure.

The reason being that, maybe as much as 70% of all data theft is done inside a corporate infrastructure! So you have people who have access to the information, take information from the computers that they are using and use it somewhere else!!

Obviously, some people are not going to feel comfortable storing their information on our servers. And the way we dealt with it is that we created the ThinkFree Server Edition. So, with this version you can run the applications behind a firewall on your own servers with your own security.

We completely understand that people may have issues and in some cases, they may feel more comfortable in essence, outsourcing their security issues to us, because it is one of our core competencies. Other people may not be able to do it as well as us.

So, they may say, “here are the files, now the security is your issue”. Other people may have a lot of competency in security and want to do it themselves and we provide a way for them to do it themselves.