Does your own company email compete anymore?
Tags :Rant
The free email space is starting to make enterprise
performance, abilities and quotas look a bit silly aren't they?
Hotmail announces size increase to 250MB (Jul 9th), Yahoo! jumps out to
100MB recently, we don't even need to talk about Gmail anymore with it's
1GB size. All this for free. Yes you might see and ad, but
with built in spam control, virus protection and simple contact management,
who is IT anymore to say the user only gets 50MB or even less?
How are they providing it if you cannot? Is it in advertisements?
Does it even matter? So now your users are trying to access
that outside mail since it provides more storage that you do? Do
you even provide spam control? How about great email virus protection?
Heck, all of the above provide a clustering system. You can hit one
of who knows how many servers. Do you even provide a cluster?
The whole point here is that too many 'enterprise' class systems do not
spend the resources necessary to buy a decent spam software product, protect
their mail gateways or offer redundancy. Many even restrict users
to tiny amounts of storage. The main reason? Anyone?
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On Monday, July 12th, 2004 by Chris Miller
