I’ve heard again and again…
“I’d love to use Gmail for my company mail and can POP mail *IN* but can’t send mail with my company domain *OUT*. I’d pay to be able to do this!”
So this raises the following questions for me:
Some questions:
- What size would the market be for this in the A) personal B) small/home-office and C) medium/large corporate spaces? Would individuals and companies really ditch Outlook/Exchange?
- Would this ‘private label’ version of Gmail still show ads?
- Would it cost money? If so, how much, and if not, would ads be the only revenue stream?
- When can we expect to see this new offering?
My guesses:
- A) Not large. Individuals with their own domains probably want the extra features that geek-mail-software offers, or the integration with Palm and such that Outlook offers.
B) Pretty substantial. Folks in this position may travel a bunch and really relish being able to check and send (branded) e-mail from any computer. Also, they’re not likely to have MS Exchange set up.
C) Questionable. Such firms likely are too entrenched in an Exchange environment and have security / privacy concerns that have already been QA’d against Outlook. - By default, yes, but you could pay (extra) to get rid of them.
- I anticipate a three tier set of offerings: Free (current version), Private Domains, and Enterprise, with only the latter having a fee based upon number of seats. No idea of the cost per seat, though.
- September 12, 2005 or April 1, 2006
Your thoughts?
IMAP would also be a requirement. POP is entirely inadequate.
Spetember 12th? why then?
Why Sept 12?
As usual, no inside info… just occasionally good guesses 😉
I know, I know… magic is more fun when you don’t know how the hot dogs are made (how’s that for mixed metaphors), but I’ll share how I came to the Sept 12th guess:
– It’s a Monday.
– It’s after Intern Time.
– It’s a prime corporate-purchasing time.
– Not too close to summer vacation, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Tax Day.
– Not too close to April 1 (‘cause that’d be the more fun time to release this stuff)
I was nearly spot on with my flickr-acquisition date guess (okay, admittedly the wrong COMPANY, but hey, let’s not get too picky). So let’s see how close I get on this one 🙂
I think it might farther out than a year. Keep in mind, they don’t have the public version out of beta. They would first have to “release” Gmail to the public before considering releasing corporate versions.
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http://www.boulderfilms.org/legend/ complimentwhosewondered
Which facilities are there in corporate versions.
Gmail Labs is the best one i gess
Becouse the space is growing and ur accnt is etternal. If u host ur site and made a mail within you can loose ur mail adress with the hosting. That is a pity