In my initial posting on Google Apps Premier I noted that sync was the one thing that it lacked for *real* enterprise adoption. The fine fellows at SpanningSync solved the problem (at least on the Mac for $25/year) and I can now say that Google Apps will likely be our corporate email and calendaring within the next few weeks. For $75/user/year ($50/google and $25/spanningsync) you have 10GB of email, shared cale In my initial posting on Google Apps Premier I noted that sync was the one thing that it lacked for *real* enterprise adoption. The fine fellows at SpanningSync solved the problem (at least on the Mac for $25/year) and I can now say that Google Apps will likely be our corporate email and calendaring within the next few weeks. For $75/user/year ($50/google and $25/spanningsync) you have 10GB of email, shared calendar, Sync and whatever other goodies Google drops on you. Just over $6/user/month is well worth it to know all your data is available. I do find it odd that 3rd parties figured out how to do the sync part before Google did…or maybe they weren’t interested?On the one hand I am terrified of lockin, and on the other hand I think that we have way too many services that we depend on too widely disparate. I am sure that Google will have some kind of meltdown sooner or later, but they will still be better than normal users will be about backups and archiving.Right now we use Zimbra@Maccius for calendar, Rackspace for email and web hosting and we are just bringing up Contegix to host the Mule project stuff along with some new features. It’s just too much. The funny thing is that my staff is willing to deal with the random Google issue just to get the Gmail interface. It just proves that apps still matter way more than operating systems. It also proves the power of the Google brand. Open Source