Written by W. Curtis Preston
Tuesday, 10 July 2007 14:20
Will these guys stop at nothing? Google's acquisition of Postini for $625 million sets it up to provide outsourced email and archiving services for large corporations. Things that make you go hmm....
If you read this story, you'll see that Google was pretty open about the fact that this acquisiton is a major step in moving gmail to the desktops of enterprises. Enterprises need archiving for their email, and this gives them that.
So how about it? Would your company consider moving their email to gmail? It's got about as nice of an interface as a web app could have, I guess. You don't have to worry about managing Exchange, backing it up, archiving it, etc. You just have to read and respond to email.
I travel a lot and do a lot of responding when I'm not connected, so I'd have a hard time going completely to gmail. I wonder what their answer is to that need? (I'm sure they'll think of something.)
Those guys at Google have sure done a lot to change the world. I wonder what the folks in Redmond are thinking today. ;)
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I just don't see how gmail could appeal to Enterprise users until they get IMAP up. Although it allows for offline access, the problem with POP is the lack of folders. I remember having to use a POP client. I can't imagine going back to that.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10339
but it appears some people have made a work around for it, involving a random IMAP server (from your ISP) and forwarding gmail to that account (silly if you ask me).
if you're not on exchange, i highly suggest any other mail client then outlook. thunderbird is nice.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
I... only use one of several gmail accounts for contexts in which I intend to remain mostly anonymous. ("Mostly" in that it's not hard to pick out my writing if you know me, but unless it's got my PGP signature on it, you can't prove it was really me.) I think that a potential employer's replacing Exchange or Notes with gmail (and its related calendaring and office bits) would be a definite pro. It'd mean that when I told them I really wanted them to give me a MacBook Pro for the work laptop rather than whatever Windows garbage they usually dished out, they might say yes.
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