<br><br>I've got a few Gmails that I log in and out from pretty much all day. There are often short periods where Gmail reports server errors and suggests trying again later. So far, I have lost no messages as a result.
<br><br>While frequent, these outges normally last under 5min and have never caused the sour taste that "normal" service with Hotmail left in my throat.<br><br>Anyway, I'm happy with the general service of Gmail, it would be nice to get the uk content and the added features instead of resorting to usa speak :s but reasonably good mix of stability/features/speed.
<br><br>leo.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Evans</b> <<a href="mailto:zen8486@zen.co.uk">zen8486@zen.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thursday 01 June 2006 22:01, Someone wrote:<br>> > Do you know, I've occasionally wondered about using gmail for this.<br><snip ><br><br>Did I not read about an outage on gmail the other day that meant everyone had
<br>no access? I read no further, but did people loose messages because of this?<br><br>Depending on how important email is to your organisation one of the factors in<br>choosing an external hosting company should be the Service Level Agreement
<br>that it has with you, the customer? AFAIK 'free' services like hotmail and<br>gmail don't have SLA's attached to them, when they work they're great, when<br>they don't that's not their problem (to the extent that you can get any
<br>compensation from them).<br><br>Then there's the any potential sensitivity issues you may have - I recall<br>gmail saves everything forever that goes through it. Is that something your<br>company can accept (this would be a small risk, if at all, for most people).
<br><br>Increasingly I'm finding it's not the functionality of the underlying<br>technology that is the most important part of solutions, but the overall<br>'service wrap' that comes with it that makes the decisions on who gets the
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