On Jul 7, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> > One thing Sun could assemble, fairly readily, would be a killer > large-enterprise messaging solution. A far more scalable back-end > server than Exchange, coupled via an instant-push-delivery protocol to > a premium-grade client app. This would not actually be hard to do, but > nobody's ever done it. Well, Larry&Co better get cracking on it, because this is exactly the market that has Google's giant glowing red laser sight dot on it. They're pushing hard into the enterprise messaging market with Gmail/ Calendar/Apps, etc....we're looking at them for the University email and calendaring stuff. It's going to be approximately a third of the cost of just licensing and machinery to run a campus-wide Exchange server, and this offloads a whole lot of support costs as well, not to mention things like Google paying the electric bill :-) (we're talking 40K accounts between students, faculty and staff, not an insignificant population) Their API's are out there, too, to tie in local resources, like financial systems. (click a button in your accounts page, and it'll generate a report pushed out to your google docs folder for the rest of the office to see, that sort of thing.) Cisco is making noises about this, too, but mainly because 'cloud computing' has a solid core of network equipment throughout :-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
