Saturday, February 11, 2006

Corporate Gmail

Google seems to be continually trying new things out. This one could be very disruptive: Google offers the possibility to host your own maildomain on their servers. This means you have all the ease of use of Gmail in combination with your very own @mycompany.com domain.
This is a brilliant move. I am wondering how much this service will cost and if any kind of ads will be added in the same way as Google adds them to the "normal" Gmail accounts.
Of course there are some questions concerning privacy but I am sure they'll work it out as this service is clearly aimed at businesses.

Update:
Now that I think of it this beta could be even more important than I realized. To my knowledge it is the first time that Google plans to offer a service to businesses that hasn't anything to do with ads. Ok they have a Google appliance but that isn't the same. This time we are talking about a service. This is something totally different. They are entering the small and midsized business for emails. A market Microsoft is focusing on with its Small Business Server product.
I am really curious to see how this product will evolve and how Microsoft, Yahoo and the like will respond.

Sunday, February 05, 2006

VMware does it again, well just maybe

Ars Technica has a post rumouring that VMWare might give away GSX. This is the server version of VMWare for workstations. I am curious to see what they will exactly release for free but this seems to be a very interesting move. This would enable IT teams to release virtual production servers as services. This means servers could start automatically when the server starts.
I am very eager to see what they will offer.

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Listible

This site enables everyone to create lists that everyone can update. Put like this I realize it doesn't sound impressive but this is a really cool tool. For all the fans of GTD (Getting Things Done) I created a list on the site: http://www.listible.com/list/the-best-gtd-resources