The future of hosted email

re: The future of hosted email

David Spark — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:57:59 GMT

When I spoke with Microsoft one of the comments they made had to do with their success in the Hosted Messaging space will be due to their size. People who choose a hosted solution want a huge company to provide it to give them a feeling of security or as you say, "warm fuzzy."

That's why you see many of these hosting messaging companies being bought out by very large companies.

Also, just a small clarification. In reference to your comment about my recommending hosted messaging for mid-sized companies. I want to clarify I'm only acting as an editor/facilitator for the Microsoft wiki on hosted messaging. So I'm not necessarily touting one solution is better than another. My comments were actually just repeating what was said to me by Microsoft employees about where they think the benefits of hosted messaging solutions lie.

So I'm eager to hear opposite opinions. For example, check out the dissenting opinion in the discussion section of the conclusion of the wiki. :)

re: The future of hosted email

me — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:24:08 GMT

What are the costs for exchangedefender? I've been to their site before but don't see any pricing.

re: The future of hosted email

Ken Edwards — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:28:09 GMT

There are 2 other valid reasons for continuing to use the Pop3 connector (or a similar third party utility)...

1) Client cannot get a static ip at a reasonable price. Small companies like to use the residential services as they just don't see the value in $300-$800 per month T1 lines. Some cannot get business grade internet.

2) Client does not trust the reliability of their internet connection. Messages not delivered to you because your email server cannot be seen on by other mail servers is a bad thing. Using the free ISP mailboxes is a cheap (Free!) way to ensure mail will always be received.

-Ken