On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Paul Robert Marino <[email protected]> wrote: > Nico > I tend to agree with you there are so many inexpensive mail services > out there now I haven't tried to do this kind of thing in many years. > But its not an option for every one especially it you work for a large > company then it can still be cheaper to do it in house or depending on > the industry your company is involved in there may be regulatory > reasons why SAAS is not an option for any thing considered a document > of record like email.
I went through this at a finance company I worked with: I saw such claims, and they all failed under review. The reliability and disaster recovery and record keeping of GMail Apps was *better* than they'd ever had, or could ever be expected to do, in house. And the security was *better* than what the company had had, in-house for their Exchange system. (I had some talks with the Exchange admins and the AD admins about their security policies. It was pretty scary what they did as a matter of course.) "Messaging", like external DNS, is one of those services that anyone can set up as a basic internal service, but can be done much more robustly for a very modest fee, and leave your systems people and developers to work on things that your company actually *wants* to be doing.
