Interesting article up on the computer weekly website about moving towards webmail.!
Businesses with less than 1000 staff should consider replacing in-house e-mail servers with webmail to reduce the cost of providing e-mail for end users, analyst firm Gartner has advised.
Matthew Cain, research vice-president at Gartner, said companies with fewer than 1,000 seats would gain significantly from the webmail approach.
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Gartner has predicted that by 2012, webmail will serve the largest firms, with more than 50,000 seats.
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Construction firm Taylor Woodrow has begun using Google Apps to support collaboration for 1800 users.
No I know someone at Taylor Woodrow or Taylor Wimpey as it is know now and they use gmail and have Blackberry access to email too. It seems quite a good idea. All they miss is Outlook, but as you can use POP3 with Outlook & GMail, it should just be a matter of configuring things and you will see no difference. Outlook should also allow you to take email “off-line”
