Good-bye Exchange, it was nice knowing you (I hope)

21 May 2009

I’m happy to say that after a good 3 or 4 years of using Exchange for all our corporate email/calendaring, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

I got an invitation today to join our pilot project on Google Apps for Enterprise.  Awesome, right!?

Is it bad than I’m looking forward to the opportunity to jettison all 35 or 40k emails and start anew?  I’d honestly trade that in an instance to free up the memory and CPU cycles chewed up by Entourage. 

 

It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out.  It’s still a pilot project so there are a few obvious and annoying gaps that force me back to Entourage, but if we can work out those kinks I’ll sure be a happy camper. 

Given that our executives were willing to jump on the iPhone bandwagon from the Blackberry, this idea could actually fly.

 

I’d be curious to hear from any small to mid-sized companies (we’re in the 75-100 employee range) that have made similar transitions.