Gmail becomes mainstream for businesses, Gartner
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Google's Gmail service is now mainstream as an email provider for businesses, and rivalry between the company and Microsoft leaves little space for any other player in cloud-based enterprise email, according to Gartner.
Web-hosted services account for between three and four percent of the overall enterprise email market, the analyst firm said on Friday. In this relatively small sector, Google is a major player, it noted. While Google's share in enterprise email overall hovers at around one percent, it has close to half of online enterprise email, the firm's research has shown.
Nevertheless, the analyst firm expects Google's share of the overall enterprise email market to hit 10 percent within a few years. Online email services will make up 20 percent of the total market by the end of 2016, and 55 percent by the close of 2020, it predicted.
For more on this story, read Gartner: Gmail is now mainstream for enterprise on ZDNet UK.
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RE: Gmail becomes mainstream for businesses, Gartner
Would deffo recoomend Gmail, spec if you enjoy the Chinese reading your emails.
daniejam1016th Sep -
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@daniejam10
My question to You is, would you enjoy reading Chinese emails if it was or wasn't your job. Food for thought.
FYI: Microsoft just signed a pack with China. So what's your alternative? Hotmail?
Return_of_the_jedi16th Sep -
Office 365. Why would you use Hotmail or gMail
@Return_of_the_jedi
It doesn't make any sense at all.
William Farrell16th Sep -
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@Return_of_the_jedi
I said would you enjoy the Chinese reading your emails, because they constantly get access to the Gmail servers and read loads of people's emails, hence why Google threatned to leave China.daniejam1016th Sep -
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@William Farrell
365 has no uptime.Return_of_the_jedi16th Sep -
RE: Gmail becomes mainstream for businesses, Gartner
@daniejam10
I'm not a Chinese dissident. So should I worry? What can they do to ME via reading my emails in China. Garnish my wages? I just don't see what's all the paranoia is about.
PS. O i'm late but I just got it. Cuz it's Google.Return_of_the_jedi16th Sep -
Has GMail figured out how to sort yet?
Are they still arrogantly telling customers "thou shall not sort"?
LBiege16th Sep -
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@LBiege
I Don't use Gmail, so I don't know. Check Gmail's FAQ.Return_of_the_jedi16th Sep -
RE: Gmail becomes mainstream for businesses, Gartner
@Return_of_the_jedi
"365 has no uptime."
Would you like for me to link to Google's outages? I didn't think so. I might also add that Google has no service and support. Ask all the companies who've tried. Google is a joke. They are incapable of servicing and supporting anyone, much less enterprise. They have don't even have support for consumers.
As for Office 365, I'm not sure what relevance it has to the article in question, but it's stomping the sh*t out of Google's competing services. LOL!
jhammackHTH16th Sep -
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@Return_of_the_jedi "My question to You is, would you enjoy reading Chinese emails if it was or wasn't your job."
Why should Google care? They've been reading people's emails since they started Gmail. In fact, they are experts at it.jhammackHTH16th Sep -
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@daniejam10
I agree. How dare Google sign a deal with Baidu to provide their english searches. They should pulled out for the security of their users life MS.
anono16th Sep -
RE: Gmail becomes mainstream for businesses, Gartner
These are my opinions only and in no way are they meant to offend anyone. If for any reason you feel the need to contact me in any way regarding these posts, especially for inappropriate wording or a perceived derogatory statement, please feel free to contact me. I am all over the Internet and you can find me there.Return_of_the_jedi16th Sep -
RE: Gmail becomes mainstream for businesses, Gartner
@Return_of_the_jedi "I am all over the Internet and you can find me there."
Obviously! You've never been laid a day in your life.jhammackHTH16th Sep -
RE: Gmail becomes mainstream for businesses, Gartner
Do real businesses think I will have competence in them if I get their mail from Gmail especially request for sensitive information? I don???t think so.
Gmail phishing scam anybody
Richard B16th Sep -
Funny since Gartner is piloting Gmail right now
Amazing how this suddenly became relevant to them.
indiffer3nce16th Sep
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