mark o'brien

After being Microsoft Exchange users for some time now, we have begun a new tech adventure by shifting to the far more economical Gmail offering from Google by having our domain hosted through them.

It’s kind of funny, really. We’ve been thinking about the possibility of cutting back our IT costs by exploring options like Gmail, but the decision all got made and implemented within a few days because we had a steep license bill coming up for one of the components in our Exchange setup which just seemed ridiculous for a sub-optimal solution. So, the crisis pushed us to jump and jump we have. I guess we’ll figure out soon enough whether this was a good move or not. In spite of some minor teething issues today, I think the transition was actually relatively painless.

Now, after Gmail’s rather poor past few weeks with some major downtime here and there, I’m hoping these sorts of things don’t become an issue for us. Although, having said that, our servers were all down a couple of weeks ago when the bad weather brought down the power in our area for several hours.

I continue to be quite amazed at the quality and excellence of tools put out by Google free-of-charge. Who would have imagined a decade ago that such a business model would work as well as it as for Google…