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Although I work for a hosting company it is still good to see that one of our competitors has a good sense of humor and sarcasm :).  They wrote up a press release comparing their Hosted Exchange product against Google hosted apps.  Here are the highlights:

Intermedia.NET...today praised the innovative new service, Google Apps for Your Domain. By offering 24x0 support, no wireless access and scanning of company email and documents, Google has bucked the trend of what companies expect from a business email provider.

The Apps for your Domain key features:

  • 24x0 support. This is important because companies for whom email and schedules are mission-critical will want to know they can pick up a phone and get support 24 hours a day, 0 days per week. Google also gives the option of filling out a support form and receiving an automated response.
  • No wireless access. Where Intermedia.NET hosted Exchange gives users access to information via BlackBerry, Treo, Q or any other device, Google has bucked this trend, perhaps suggesting that wireless email is in fact a productivity-sapping distraction for employees.
  • Private data read by others. Google Apps for your Desktop again bucks the trend that businesses should not allow outsiders to read their proprietary documents and email. Businesses can rest easy knowing that Google is looking at all emails and documents.
  • Ads inside applications. Clearly, employees are more productive when their business applications stream ads for online poker sites and pills to combat ED.
  • No uptime guarantee. Rather than a predictable 99.9% uptime guarantee, such as the one offered by Intermedia.NET, Google does not provide a set percentage of the time when email will be up and running. This keeps corporate collaboration more exciting, by allowing staff to guess whether the system will be working or not.  

Full Press release: http://www.intermedia.net/about-us/news/2006/google-apps.asp

 


Posted 09-19-2006 2:02 AM by Joel Stidley
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