Florian Effenberger wrote: > these are excellent news, congratulations and thanks for sharing! I'm a > bit hesitant of twittering this, as Google is quite prominently > mentioned there...
What to say? They seem to use Google's services to be able to remove MS Exchange. They could run Kolab or Citadel, but by running GMail, they are still off of MS Exchange. That does a lot. First, it turns e-mail into something usable for communication and work. Second, it breaks the MS-Outlook-MS-Windows tie. By turning e-mail into something that works for communication, more work can be done with less effort. That also reduces stress. By leaving Exchange behind, mail clients and new, but unrelated applications, won't take the blame for old problems that are suddenly noticed again. Leaving MS Exchange also means being able to leave MS Outlook[1]. That, too, is a gain of many hours per week per employee. For it years was called in magazines as a security hole masquerading as a useful application and various Windows pundits, also in mainstream magazines, called for it to be banned. Larry Ellison called it for a while Lookout. There are different ways to say the same thing, when promoting the news. /Lars [1] I worked at a help desk long ago, back in the days of PC Pine and Eudora. Once every month or two someone on the team would get a call or e-mail asking if it were possible to get a computer virus via e-mail. We would get a good laugh from that. At the time we could answer, "no, it is not possible" and when asked how or why, we could answer, "because first someone would have to design an e-mail client to spread computer viruses" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
