[sdw2003] L.A. votes to "Go Google"; pressure shifts to Google and the cloud

[Tracy Reed]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 03:09:09PM -0700, Thaddeus Braun spake thusly:
> Any thoughts on this? Anyone already "clouding" their email offsite for
> a whole company of 50+ people?

Many universities have already done this successfuly (so far):

http://www.google.com/search?q=gmail+university+email

They say it is cheaper than running a campus email system. I'm not
sure how I would feel about it for my company. But I'm all in favor of
anything that unseats that mess that is Exchange. If I get one more
"so-and-so would like to recall the email they just sent" message I'm
gonna go nuts. :)

PS: This list is the only one of the 118 mailing lists which I
subscribe to (but obviously don't read on a daily basis) which
flat-out rejects attachments of any sort including GPG
signatures. Pretty much every email you have ever seen me post here
had to be sent twice: once with the GPG signature attachment which got
rejected because I always forget to tell my MUA not to sign and then
once again without the GPG signature. I like to think this implies
something about the email security mindsets of the different
communities in which I participate. :)

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Tracy Reed
http://tracyreed.org