you need to look at, i swear, the "total value proposition". i don't generally talk in marketing speak, but in this case - you get what you pay for.
what parts of exchange do you use? what email client? how does that feature set compare within GA? are those features even available? (think delegation, multiple mailboxes, meetings vs. appointments vs. room reservations, domain aliases, mailbox aliases, etc. etc. etc. -- the list is VERY long) what's the offline story? that is, what happens when you don't have net access? what's the REAL SLA? what's the monetary impact to your company to be without email, and if your email is down, how will GA repay you? if ALL you need is single domain email, then Exchange is overkill. Microsoft is pushing Exchange in the cloud for SMB. From a client perspective, there is absolutely nothing that Exchange-in-the-cloud can't do that Exchange-on-premise can do (not true from an admin perspective, but that's a different kettle of fish). GA is not Exchange. ________________________________________ From: Jeremy Anderson [jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Google Aps I was just informed by my boss that we will activly be presuing using Google Aps Enterprise in our company and if the 30 day trial goes well, then we will be off Exchange and using Google Aps. After my initial almost fall over and hit the floor, and quick panic about how long I will have my job, I started to wonder about this a bit. I was asked what my opinion was and I honestly replied "I dont have enough information to even reply" Does anyone on this list have any experiance with somthing like this? Any links to how well this might scale in a 1500 user enviroment? Pros/Cons or reviews? I know even MS is pushing the Software as a Service idea. I dont even know where to start on this one, but my gut reaction is "are you guys crazy?" I dont know if thats even a correct reaction. Thanks Jeremy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
