A reader on the West Coast tried to access the Gartner site at 5 pm Pacific time Friday and was irritated to get the message below.
I waited till midnight Eastern and tried the URL.
Ironically, the page is about Gartner's Web Innovation Summit, where the agenda includes:
- Cloud computing
- SaaS
- Web 2.0 workplace technologies, such as blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging tools, mashups, AJAX and RIA
- Evolving and new business models to leverage the new Web
- SOA, Web services and Web oriented architectures
Can you imagine how much heat amazon or Skype or Google or Twitter or salesforce would take it they took 4 hours off on a Friday night for scheduled maintenance? And just "apologized for any inconvenience"...
