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First, I sell commercial mail servers (no, not Exchange), so I have some bias. I'm not going to plug the product I sell (though it's easy enough to track it down through my profile if you really wanted to).
If your small business is 10 employees or less, I think Gmail is an ideal choice. I use it myself, and although I have some gripes about this and that, overall it beats everything else out there.
Above 10 employees, things change and it becomes time to consider an in-house server. You are going to want and need the calendering and collaboration apps that are not included in Gmail's free version, and you also need the flexibility, control and security that can only come from an in-house server.
There's also the matter of cost. At $50 per user per year for the full features set, Gmail through Google Apps is quite expensive. At 50 users, even including the cost of hardware and maintenance, an in-house server is half the cost or less of using Google.
I have links that talk about these things in more detail, but I am new to this community and don't know what the protocols are here so I am not including them.
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Trekscribbler
December 10, 2010
Hmm. It seems to me that gmail addresses are a huge source of unwanted spam, but I know those spammers can text in fake addresses, too.
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devora
September 22, 2010
I think Gmail's a great choice for everyone! :P I'm a huge fan of Gmail and other Google apps (as evidenced in my review of Getting Productive With Google Apps). I do see your point about it not being the most efficient for larger companies though. I never even thought about that. Great review, Anthony!
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Gmail is a free webmail, POP3, and IMAP service provided by Google. In the United Kingdom and Germany it is officially called Google Mail.
Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007. As of July 2009 it has 146 million users monthly. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite.
With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4MB its competitors offered at that time. The service currently offers over 7350 MB of free storage with additional storage ranging from 10 GB to 400 GB available for $20 to $500 (US) per year.
Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. Software developers know Gmail for its pioneering use of the Ajax programming technique.
Gmail runs on Google Servlet Engine and Google GFE/1.3 which runs on Linux.
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Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007. As of July 2009 it has 146 million users monthly. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite.
With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4MB its competitors offered at that time. The service currently offers over 7350 MB of free storage with additional storage ranging from 10 GB to 400 GB available for $20 to $500 (US) per year.
Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. Software developers know Gmail for its pioneering use of the Ajax programming technique.
Gmail runs on Google Servlet Engine and Google GFE/1.3 which runs on Linux.
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