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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      BBVA, the big Spanish bank, is on Google Apps.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Change, where I am, is on Google Apps. They are not large enough to qualify for this list here yet, but are expected to be way larger than you are looking for (and still on Apps) by later this year.

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        • IRJI
          IRJ @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said:

          @IRJ said:

          Those companies all have their own Office suites.....

          Well, two of them do. But they are also some of the world's biggest companies and a lot of smaller ones follow their leads. Apple makes their own OS too, but doesn't run on it. They run on Linux primarily and AIX secondary. (Apple uses Apple laptops, obviously.)

          But they also demonstrate that huge companies don't have a reliance on MS Office as much as people assume.

          This is an older article, but its an interesting read on the subject
          http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Microsoft-Office-Still-Tops-the-Charts/story.xhtml?story_id=11300CMAFY18

          I think compatibility is the key. I don't use Google Docs so I don't know how compatible it is with MS Office.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            I bet that Zoho could hop in here with a list of large customers of their own too. They are a direct competitor with Google Apps and are active here on ML.

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            • IRJI
              IRJ @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said:

              I bet that Zoho could hop in here with a list of large customers of their own too. They are a direct competitor with Google Apps and are active here on ML.

              I actually like Zoho alot for my personal use. They offer free email that is much better than standard webmail

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @IRJ
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                @IRJ said:

                @scottalanmiller said:

                I bet that Zoho could hop in here with a list of large customers of their own too. They are a direct competitor with Google Apps and are active here on ML.

                I actually like Zoho alot for my personal use. They offer free email that is much better than standard webmail

                They offer 25 accounts free for business right now. I bet we'll get some info about that tomorrow!

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                • IRJI
                  IRJ @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  @IRJ said:

                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  I bet that Zoho could hop in here with a list of large customers of their own too. They are a direct competitor with Google Apps and are active here on ML.

                  I actually like Zoho alot for my personal use. They offer free email that is much better than standard webmail

                  They offer 25 accounts free for business right now. I bet we'll get some info about that tomorrow!

                  I have used it on my domains and I love it.

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @IRJ
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                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    They offer 25 accounts free for business right now. I bet we'll get some info about that tomorrow!

                    @IRJ said:

                    I have used it on my domains and I love it.

                    I have Google Apps grandfathered in from when it was free for my daerma.com domain and my Uncle's salvage yard domain. I was debating setting something up to handle my other domains, but now I will look at Zoho for that.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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                      NTG has a sub-domain grandfathered with Google Apps too.

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                      • coliverC
                        coliver
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                        I use Zoho, on my personal domain, for webmail, works very well. I haven't touched their documents suite though. I went through most of my high school and all of my college (undergrad and grad) with just Google Apps. Sending in files as a PDF was the solution to things not being compatible. Now though I don't think I've had a problem in recent years with incompatibility.

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                        • DoughnutD
                          Doughnut
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                          I'm going to go ahead and sign my life away and try it out.

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                          • nadnerBN
                            nadnerB
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                            I'd say let us know what you think of it, but NDA... 😞

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @Doughnut
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                              @Doughnut said:

                              I'm going to go ahead and sign my life away and try it out.

                              Only applies till it goes GA, so not that bad really 🙂

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                              • DoughnutD
                                Doughnut @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller meh, makes no difference to me. Bill Gates has had an eternal death grip on my soul for the last 25 or so years anyways.

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                                • DominicaD
                                  Dominica @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  Roche (where @dominica and @katie used to work) is on Google Apps. They are a 90,000 seat global pharmaceutical. Pretty big there.

                                  Oh, I wonder how switching to Google Apps has changed the helpdesk support requests. I bet that all the remote users are so much happier with this change. You've made me all nostalgic thinking about my old users.

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                                  • bsouderB
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                                    I wonder if they will address the Office 2013 IMAP issues. There is a thread in the Microsoft forums that is pages long. Microsoft never bothered to reply to it even. Everyone in the thread worked together to find work arounds. It is mostly turning off all the bloatware features in the plug-in's.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @Dominica
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                                      @Dominica in theory support requests will go way down as many of the major apps move completely to the browser. No more install, reinstall or version change requests. Only the "help me use this" handholding requests would remain.

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                                      • nadnerBN
                                        nadnerB @bsouder
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                                        @bsouder said:

                                        I wonder if they will address the Office 2013 IMAP issues. There is a thread in the Microsoft forums that is pages long. Microsoft never bothered to reply to it even. Everyone in the thread worked together to find work arounds. It is mostly turning off all the bloatware features in the plug-in's.

                                        Holy crap! That looks like one of the issues we have had with some of our users and shared mailbox folders! I had no idea how to describe the issue.

                                        I've bookmarked a page for revision on Monday.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @bsouder
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                                          @bsouder said:

                                          I wonder if they will address the Office 2013 IMAP issues. There is a thread in the Microsoft forums that is pages long. Microsoft never bothered to reply to it even. Everyone in the thread worked together to find work arounds. It is mostly turning off all the bloatware features in the plug-in's.

                                          I doubt it, good IMAP support is not really in their interest. That it works at all is really all that probably matters. If you are a dedicated IMAP shop you are probably going to move to a different web interface, use Thunderbird or are so cheap that you aren't really a serious MS customer.

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                                          • nadnerBN
                                            nadnerB @scottalanmiller
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                                            @scottalanmiller said:

                                            I doubt it, good IMAP support is not really in their interest. That it works at all is really all that probably matters

                                            That sounds strange considering how stringent you said that they are with their OS releases. Shouldn't they keep their product compatible for the protocols that name as being supported? If they are half arsing it, then save the embarrassment and remove it from Outlook already.

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