Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed May 19 08:13:35 CDT 2010
Google has just announce an upgrade to it Gmail offering and API that will extend the product into the functionality of full featured Enterprise mail server. Whether it is equivalent to Microsoft's Exchange server is yet to be seen but few compadres are already working on install the product on client's sites to evaluate this low cost alternative will have all the power needed. Google and Microsoft are working towards the same functionality but by different methods. Microsoft is developing through the cloud type apps that will extend the reach of basically desktop applications while Google is attempting to develop web based apps as function as desktop ones. Microsoft relies on single fee desktop application and Google is working on the pay as you go type model. Check out Google's API challenge to Microsoft's Exchange Server/Outlook client: http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/05/gmail-as-platform-for-enterpr i.php Jim