I don't think too many companies really end up saving any money outsourcing. And how many of the hosting companies' failures were seamless to their customers?
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant hp Services Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce-exchange-94760@;ls.swynk.com] On Behalf Of Greg Deckler Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 9:25 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: somewhat OT You've hit the major players. The entire email hosting business has pretty much flopped and consolidated. Critical Path handed over its hosted corporate messaging services to HP. United Messaging was acquired by Agilera. Commtouch sold its hosted Exchange business to TeleComputing. USA.NET and Mi8 are still hanging in there, for now. But this entire market space has just been decimated of late. I still think that the business case is there for outsourced messaging, but apparently not enough people have the same attitude that I do. Anyone else care to comment on why they think that this market space has flopped? One would think that in a time of economic hardship, companies would really be looking to outsource anything and everything they can in order to lower costs. If outsourced corporate messaging can't make it in today's economy, I have serious doubts that it will ever make it. But the question is why? Outsourced messaging holds the promise of lower costs, flexibility and the ability to focus on one's core business. In addition, many of the outsourced providers can put together systems that have a mix of high-end and low-end mailbox services that are all tied together as a single system. This means that companies can have Exchange mailboxes for those that need it and low-cost IMAP/POP mailboxes for everyone else and the outsourcer ties it all together to look like a single email system. So why did this market fail? > Who all is left in the Hosted E2K (asp-model) game?=20 > > USA.NET? > MI8?=20 > Critical Path? > > others?=20 > > j > Regards,=20 > > > John Henley _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
