infosec is the primary reason many foreign firms won't allow Google anything, 
especially after the whole NSA blowup. Knowing someone somewhere is going to 
try capping your bits is one thing, knowing that your provider has a standing 
contract to serve your data on a platter is another.

On Saturday 08 February 2014 18:53:55 Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> info sec is not the problem it's a record keeping issue.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Paul Robert Marino 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> Nico
> >> I tend to agree with you there are so many inexpensive mail services
> >> out there now I haven't tried to do this kind of thing in many years.
> >> But its not an option for every one especially it you work for a large
> >> company then it can still be cheaper to do it in house or depending on
> >> the industry your company is involved in there may be regulatory
> >> reasons why SAAS is not an option for any thing considered a document
> >> of record like email.
> > 
> > I went through this at a finance company I worked with: I saw such
> > claims, and they all failed under review. The reliability and disaster
> > recovery and record keeping of GMail Apps was *better* than they'd
> > ever had, or could ever be expected to do, in house. And the security
> > was *better* than what the company had had, in-house for their
> > Exchange system. (I had some talks with the Exchange admins and the AD
> > admins about their security policies. It was pretty scary what they
> > did as a matter of course.)
> > 
> > "Messaging", like external DNS, is one of those services that anyone
> > can set up as a basic internal service, but can be done much more
> > robustly for a very modest fee, and leave your systems people and
> > developers to work on things that your company actually *wants* to be
> > doing.