Let's all get blindsided together!
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@Paul-Luciano said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
Rackspace Email paired with Thunderbird?
This works fine. It's super cheap, just 25% the cost of Hosted Exchange and like 23% that of GMail but Rackspace has been having pretty severe problems with support the last two years. It's a decent option, just make sure that people are aware that email technical issues are common and support is weak.
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@Dashrender said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
Rackspace mail is $2 normally, and $1 last I heard for SpiceWorks users. Another $1/month if you want activesync. That's a noticeable potential saving.
Yup, $1 base price and $1 extra. It's just a code that they make public.
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The only other enterprise email option would be Amazon's email, which like the others is $4/user/month. So no savings to be had there.
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But keep in mind calendaring will be very different and a PITA to setup for teams to control calendars etc. Once you Delete things they are gone no way to do any recovery etc. This is not exchange just IMAP which means no real business controls.
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@Minion-Queen said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
But keep in mind calendaring will be very different and a PITA to setup for teams to control calendars etc. Once you Delete things they are gone no way to do any recovery etc. This is not exchange just IMAP which means no real business controls.
How many SMBs don't use shared calendaring? Plenty I'll bet. Of course plenty do use them as well.
I agree with others, O365 Exchange only for $4/m/u or O365 with SP, Office online, ODfB for $5/m/u are very worthwhile products.
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@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
Amazon's email
I didn't even know Amazon did Email.
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@coliver said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
Amazon's email
I didn't even know Amazon did Email.
It's relatively recent.
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@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@coliver said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
Amazon's email
I didn't even know Amazon did Email.
It's relatively recent.
The Free tier is interesting. You can send up to 62,000 emails a month if you are accessing it from an EC2 instance. That's pretty cool.
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I've never understood discussions on the price of e-mail. All offerings seem so trivially cheap to me. I mean in the US you're paying your employees, on average, over $50,000 per year and you're worried about an extra $50 a year for e-mail? We probably spend more on paper towels in the rest room than e-mail but I rarely see the president starting that discussion.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
I've never understood discussions on the price of e-mail. All offerings seem so trivially cheap to me. I mean in the US you're paying your employees, on average, over $50,000 per year and you're worried about an extra $50 a year for e-mail? We probably spend more on paper towels in the rest room than e-mail but I rarely see the president starting that discussion.
Per employee? Damn they go through a huge amount of TP.
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Erm..I haven't done the maths :), but you've got the cost of maintaining the dispensers, employing someone to fill them, disposing of the used ones, ordering new ones.
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@coliver said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@coliver said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
Amazon's email
I didn't even know Amazon did Email.
It's relatively recent.
The Free tier is interesting. You can send up to 62,000 emails a month if you are accessing it from an EC2 instance. That's pretty cool.
And nearly useless
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@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@coliver said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@coliver said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
Amazon's email
I didn't even know Amazon did Email.
It's relatively recent.
The Free tier is interesting. You can send up to 62,000 emails a month if you are accessing it from an EC2 instance. That's pretty cool.
And nearly useless
For this conversation yes. But for web apps built for EC2 this could be a good tool. Although if you're building apps on EC2 and need to send email I'd guess you'd need to do far more then 62,000 a month.
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@Dashrender said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@Carnival-Boy said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
I've never understood discussions on the price of e-mail. All offerings seem so trivially cheap to me. I mean in the US you're paying your employees, on average, over $50,000 per year and you're worried about an extra $50 a year for e-mail? We probably spend more on paper towels in the rest room than e-mail but I rarely see the president starting that discussion.
Per employee? Damn they go through a huge amount of TP.
That's not THAT much unless you are buying that horrible single ply stuff that doesn't hold up at all.
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@coliver said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@coliver said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@coliver said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
Amazon's email
I didn't even know Amazon did Email.
It's relatively recent.
The Free tier is interesting. You can send up to 62,000 emails a month if you are accessing it from an EC2 instance. That's pretty cool.
And nearly useless
For this conversation yes. But for web apps built for EC2 this could be a good tool. Although if you're building apps on EC2 and need to send email I'd guess you'd need to do far more then 62,000 a month.
Right. This is really only useful for like testing and stuff.
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@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@Dashrender said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@Carnival-Boy said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
I've never understood discussions on the price of e-mail. All offerings seem so trivially cheap to me. I mean in the US you're paying your employees, on average, over $50,000 per year and you're worried about an extra $50 a year for e-mail? We probably spend more on paper towels in the rest room than e-mail but I rarely see the president starting that discussion.
Per employee? Damn they go through a huge amount of TP.
That's not THAT much unless you are buying that horrible single ply stuff that doesn't hold up at all.
wait, isn't that the only thing they use in all of Europe. (said jokingly since I know it's not true - but I've heard the cracks about how americans have to have two ply, etc).
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@Carnival-Boy said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
I've never understood discussions on the price of e-mail. All offerings seem so trivially cheap to me. I mean in the US you're paying your employees, on average, over $50,000 per year and you're worried about an extra $50 a year for e-mail? We probably spend more on paper towels in the rest room than e-mail but I rarely see the president starting that discussion.
It certainly is about perspective. One of the things I like to bring up in meetings is how much is the meeting costing. When you have even as little as 5 people in the room, and the average salary is still a meager $50K, it's still costing $120+ an hour to be in the room. Increase this by 4 or 5 more people and add executive management and your talking $1000/hour just to talk about saving less than $5K/year.
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@pchiodo said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@Carnival-Boy said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
I've never understood discussions on the price of e-mail. All offerings seem so trivially cheap to me. I mean in the US you're paying your employees, on average, over $50,000 per year and you're worried about an extra $50 a year for e-mail? We probably spend more on paper towels in the rest room than e-mail but I rarely see the president starting that discussion.
It certainly is about perspective. One of the things I like to bring up in meetings is how much is the meeting costing. When you have even as little as 5 people in the room, and the average salary is still a meager $50K, it's still costing $120+ an hour to be in the room. Increase this by 4 or 5 more people and add executive management and your talking $1000/hour just to talk about saving less than $5K/year.
I call this the "high cost of decision making". You have to account for the time to research the solutions, too. And the risk of the change. And the cost of making the change.
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@scottalanmiller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@pchiodo said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
@Carnival-Boy said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
I've never understood discussions on the price of e-mail. All offerings seem so trivially cheap to me. I mean in the US you're paying your employees, on average, over $50,000 per year and you're worried about an extra $50 a year for e-mail? We probably spend more on paper towels in the rest room than e-mail but I rarely see the president starting that discussion.
It certainly is about perspective. One of the things I like to bring up in meetings is how much is the meeting costing. When you have even as little as 5 people in the room, and the average salary is still a meager $50K, it's still costing $120+ an hour to be in the room. Increase this by 4 or 5 more people and add executive management and your talking $1000/hour just to talk about saving less than $5K/year.
I call this the "high cost of decision making". You have to account for the time to research the solutions, too. And the risk of the change. And the cost of making the change.
Exactly. An email migration is going to cost well in excess of $5K when you take into account the tech time, the learning time, not to mention the lost productivity while everyone learns a new system.
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@pchiodo said in Let's all get blindsided together!:
Exactly. An email migration is going to cost well in excess of $5K when you take into account the tech time, the learning time, not to mention the lost productivity while everyone learns a new system.
I guess for SMBs migrations have a high cost but in large companies most of us are familiar with the majority of systems out their and can automate a migration in no time. granted when we move the cost could have been $5k in time. but that was for a lot of people. Like less than 10 cents a user.
The primary reason we migrate isn't overall IT costs of the system, it's operational cost. IE down time costs, user issues, business needs.
Now Microsoft office is something that's heavily scrutinized in our company, it's a very bloated system. We don't touch most of the features, and the update cycle makes o365 & SA not worth it. Word and Excel forumluas and macro's is what's used most in our company. We are stuck to it right now because we pay Microsoft to use some DLLs in our own applications (some excel stuff), along with paying Adobe to use some of theirs.
