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- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -1/+46Google's default spam filter already kicks a sufficient amount of ass.
- swaggadocio, on 08/20/2008, -0/+35google is a business. you are an idiot.
- Narcowski, on 02/06/2008, -0/+10It's one of the major points of gmail, I doubt they'll take it away.
- DFragmentor, on 02/06/2008, -2/+11This isn't new. My company has had Postini for years. Postini was awesome before Google bought them.
- Narcowski, on 02/06/2008, -1/+9No, see, Google buys innovative companies and expands them (YouTube, etc) whereas Microsoft tries their hardest to keep us all on their rather outdated technology (by buying and dismantling the innovators).
- luchid, on 02/06/2008, -1/+9In your mom's bed.
- Narcowski, on 02/06/2008, -0/+7Well, technically your company email address and all information on it belongs to someone up in corporate and not to you... I mean it makes sense, just dont use your work email for personal stuff.
- brandonhardee, on 02/06/2008, -2/+8google knows where you sleep at night
- ConceptJunkie, on 02/06/2008, -0/+6Maybe because there's a bit of an implication that Postini _isn't_ awesome now. I've used it for about 5 years, and while there have always been things about it that bugged me, overall I would agree with "awesome".
- aockey, on 02/06/2008, -0/+5I'm not sure why you got dugg down for that. I was about to say the same thing. It's really nothing new. We've had hosted Postini services for about 2 years now. It's a great service and I always recommend it to other people.
- thinman1189, on 02/06/2008, -2/+7Yeah, that's great and all but will it make me eggs in the morning?
- DjArcadian, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4Why is this news? Google has been offering Postini for a while. I tried it but only have a handful of business emails. Only really worth it on a larger scale.
- NebCanuck, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4The advertising dollars they get from tons of free users covers the cost of the free one. The postini stuff is just for extra cash from businesses who are super concerned about the possibility of spam leaking through.
- jemka, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4He doesn't when I'm there.
- kgool, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4Yes, no Apple-Paul-Obama.
- luchid, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3It says "business options". Postini's solutions aren't for the consumer but for corporate offices. They provide group email policies, tools to check for compliance to hundreds of different really complicated data archiving and email archiving laws according to different states, etc.
- Ryosen, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3$25 a year? Makes you wonder how they're going to justify charging so little. Given that Google's stated purpose is to catalog all of the world's data, and that they use GMail for expressly that purpose, is the catch to using their Postini service that Google will aggregate the contents in the same way that they do now with GMail?
This is a serious question as I would love to be able to use this instead of SpamAssassin and such. I would gladly pay $25/year to use a spam filtering service in a corporate environment.
Does anyone know what, if any, the catch is? - idconvict, on 02/07/2008, -0/+2You take ***** in your emails?
- FirasT, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2So when Google buys out a company, it is expanding its business options. When Microsoft does it, it is creating a monopoly and it's the end of the internet. What's the final word?
- sleepycoder, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2At $25 per year, it would take a million corporate email clients 25 years to pay back the initial $625 million purchase price of Postini. Does anyone know many clients Postini currently serves?
- Carlix, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2Hypocracy of Google
- FredFredrickson, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2Well I don't know about the Microsoft / Yahoo! thing, but this certainly ruins the internet for me.
- Ryosen, on 02/06/2008, -1/+3Yes, you did.
- voyvf, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2You're comparing oranges to Death Stars here.
- theOster, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2another very happy postini customer here. we also use synergIT and i've gotta say that they're some of the best tech support guys i've dealt with.
- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -1/+2Google overpaid for Postini because Postini had VC buddies who had invested in them, and those VCs were buddies of Google's board. Same reason Google paid 1.8 billion for youtube- Sequoia bankrolled youtube and sequoia was the bankroll behind google. When google overpaid wildly for youtube, the sequoia partners got an instant 500 million dollar profit.
- NJank, on 02/06/2008, -1/+2billion
- plizard, on 02/06/2008, -0/+14
- hirro, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1Google apps for the enterprise also includes Postini in the package. However, you only get 90 days of recovery by default. You can pay to have it longer.
- origclubsoda, on 02/07/2008, -0/+1Concentric.com's Perimeter Email Protection does the same thing.
- Ryosen, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1I meant "catch" from a privacy standpoint, not financial.
- v4vishal, on 02/06/2008, -1/+2Time for Microsoft to look for another company to acquire..
- FredFredrickson, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1"$25 a year? Makes you wonder how they're going to justify charging so little."
"I would gladly pay $25/year to use a spam filtering service in a corporate environment."
You just answered your own question. - AlienMushroom, on 02/21/2008, -1/+1Thanks, now I figure that every single American owns 1.3 company.
- crossers, on 07/18/2008, -0/+0They do everything for finding new ways to get money!
http://www.shpe-sac.org
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http://www.chasr.org/ - gorndog, on 02/06/2008, -0/+0Ah ... I see. I subscribed to the mail filtering and couldn't figure out the next step.
From: http://www.google.com/support/appsecurity/bin/answ ...
> "The Setup message, titled 'Setup and Activate Your Google Service,'
> will arrive within one business day. - CrustyDOD, on 02/07/2008, -0/+0Just another way to get money..
- TheZorch, on 02/06/2008, -2/+1You typed that while Steve Balmer was ram rodding you up the ass, didn't you.
- Gr00veMerchant, on 02/06/2008, -3/+2I'm getting the distinct impression this is another move in the chess match against Microsoft. Sort of a "You can buy Yahoo! all you want, it still won't matter" type of thing.
- TheZorch, on 02/06/2008, -3/+1If Microsoft thinks they are going to be able to do something like this after buying Yahoo they are sorely mistaken.
- qaaqle, on 02/06/2008, -2/+0couldn't they develop this?
- DiFosfor, on 02/06/2008, -5/+3Let's hope they'll keep that up for free though...
- Narcowski, on 02/06/2008, -5/+3That's not a bad rate at all; similar services cost far more.
P.S. 171 diggs and 4 comments? - AlienMushroom, on 02/21/2008, -3/+1So is Google gonna insist that Microsoft buying Yahoo is monopoly? What a shame.
- jpelker, on 02/06/2008, -5/+0Technically, the toilets belong to corporate, too. I guess that means anything I put in there is okay to peek at, too.
- cowsgonemadd3, on 02/06/2008, -7/+2Another dumb statement.
I have yet to see a donkey in my inbox.
Fail language? - AllYourBase3, on 02/06/2008, -8/+3google is stifling innovation
oh wait, it's only when microsoft buys companies - jpelker, on 02/06/2008, -7/+0Postini's Apps product is evil. It allows your company to read/search your emails freely. Patriot Act-type stuff.
- supporter12, on 02/06/2008, -34/+1its suck that its not free to all gmail users. google is greedy
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