Are you saying that you use "free" email for confidential communications, perhaps including corporate data? And that your company is OK with that?
Seems to me that the value of corporate email systems like Exchange/Outlook and Domino/Notes lies in the ability to ensure the security and confidentiality of data. I don't know of any countries' militaries who use G-mail or Yahoo to transmit orders to their troops...or any governments who use it for internal communications. Both Outlook and Notes have the ability to secure email while in transit, and to send and receive email when outside the corporate network...so why would you use something over which you have virtually no control for this purpose? Just curious...
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Really?
Are you saying that you use "free" email for confidential communications, perhaps including corporate data? And that your company is OK with that?
Seems to me that the value of corporate email systems like Exchange/Outlook and Domino/Notes lies in the ability to ensure the security and confidentiality of data. I don't know of any countries' militaries who use G-mail or Yahoo to transmit orders to their troops...or any governments who use it for internal communications. Both Outlook and Notes have the ability to secure email while in transit, and to send and receive email when outside the corporate network...so why would you use something over which you have virtually no control for this purpose? Just curious...
Work versus personal
Martin, there are a huge number of differences between corporate requirements for messaging and collaboration and the use of a consumer-grade e-mail system (often labeled "beta") for individuals. Pundits have been predicting this "dirty little secret" for four or more years, yet corporate messaging and collaboration environments persist.
Enterprise Emails versus Freebies
Free Email services don't have to promise backup and restore facilities, or record-keeping facilities. They're also run and OWNED by large corporations such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. There are no guarantees of uptime and/or privacy and it's debatable as to who actually owns the content of the mail.
Corporate email still has a place and it's tied to other services for a reason. I'm glad that you pointed out that the ties in Notes/Domino are much stronger because it's critical to realize that Domino is built-in to corporate database systems and adds critical functionality to them.
You can't say that about Exchange. It's a standalone system which could be easily replaced by a free mail system without losing any integration.
Huh?
"tie us into collaboration systems and workflows that we don't need."
Martin this is such unmitigated hogwash and generality. You really cannot make this statement and believe it applies to all companies, all industries etc.
Get a better argument why don't you. Corporate mail is corporate mail. Real business.
Oh and if you think Exchange is any less of a pain to admin than Domino, then clearly you haven't worked on either.
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