Imaginary Landscape
RSS FeedWhen it was first suggested, I was immediately against it. The thought of outsourcing our company email to anyone, even Google, was simply not acceptable.
However, when asked "Why?" I stumbled and stammered. "Because we are an Internet company and, well, we just have to do our own email?" I trailed off, ending in a weak question as I heard myself.
Then the ever-so patient folks that handle our systems quietly pointed out:
- Gmail supports our domain
- It offers 99.9% uptime guarantee
- It is available through POP, IMAP and Web
- It manages spam beautifully
- It costs $50 per year per person
- Each mailbox comes with 25 GB of storage
- They even have a spiffy way to migrate our existing IMAP accounts
That's a lot of benefit for around $1,000 per year. Depreciation on our mailserver alone equals that, let alone the maintenance of it. I don't even have to go into spam productivity issues to know it is a fiscally sound idea.
Sometimes sacred cows really do make for good hamburgers.
Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:25AM CDT by brian
Categories: Business Technology
