Re: [Nolug] OT: Gmail paid service

On 2009-08-30 19:56, B. Estrade wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 04:23:22PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 2009-08-30 15:29, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>>> Has anyone used the GMail paid service (Enterprise, I think is their
>>> term)? My employer is considering a switch to it. We are unhappy with
>>> our current mail server (with our web host) due to spam and outages. We
>>> looked at hosted Exchange as we wanted to also gain shared calendaring,
>>> but it seems that many companies don't do a very good job at hosted
>>> Exchange either.. With GMail's anti-spam service, Outlook sync utility
>>> and shared calendaring abilities, it seems like a good choice.
>> What happens when Google has an outage, or decides to "grep" through
>> your emails for interesting tidbits?
>
> Durrrr...isn't that why Google provides free email and free doc-tools
> anyway? They want to mine as much as they can about as many people as
> they can. If you're paying for services, however, I would imagine you
> can pay for them to not do this with your emails (i.e., ad free?).
>
>>> Wondering if anyone on the list is using it in a small to medium
>>> business setting?
>
> As I mentioned in an email I just sent, LSU uses it for their student
> email.

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#di=1&hl=en

Gmail (free and Corporate) was down parts of yesterday and the day
before.

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