Google sells HARD toward select medium-sized businesses. They go in and talk about backups and infrastructure and expensive administrators and how, with a Google solution, you don't have to have any of those.
That speaks to management where in counts - in the P&L statement. That's why I said any response must be based on the value proposition of the solution. ________________________________________ From: Phil Brutsche [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Google Aps My first reaction is your boss is loony. Ignoring everything else Google Apps is just yet another email hosting provider that provides POP3 and a really really goofy IMAP serivce. Jeremy Anderson wrote: > I was just informed by my boss that we will activly be presuing using > Google Aps Enterprise in our company and if the 30 day trial goes > well, then we will be off Exchange and using Google Aps. > > After my initial almost fall over and hit the floor, and quick panic > about how long I will have my job, I started to wonder about this a > bit. I was asked what my opinion was and I honestly replied "I dont > have enough information to even reply" > > Does anyone on this list have any experiance with somthing like this? > Any links to how well this might scale in a 1500 user enviroment? > Pros/Cons or reviews? I know even MS is pushing the Software as a > Service idea. > > I dont even know where to start on this one, but my gut reaction is > "are you guys crazy?" I dont know if thats even a correct reaction. -- Phil Brutsche [email protected] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
