Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Can Google Apps crack large enterprises? Today’s IMAP outage casts doubt

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Apr 16, 20081 min

InfoWorld just ran an article questioning the idea of Google Apps in large enterprises: Can Google Apps crack large enterprises? | InfoWorld | News | 2008-04-16 | By C.G. Lynch, CIO.com One of my small enterprises uses Google Apps (and pays for the privilege), and this afternoon IMAP was out for about an hour. I'd say about half of us read our mail with IMAP, since it's a convenient way to get the messages into

InfoWorld just ran an article questioning the idea of Google Apps in large enterprises:

Can Google Apps crack large enterprises? | InfoWorld | News | 2008-04-16 | By C.G. Lynch, CIO.com

One of my small enterprises uses Google Apps (and pays for the privilege), and this afternoon IMAP was out for about an hour. I’d say about half of us read our mail with IMAP, since it’s a convenient way to get the messages into the local mail client while allowing for synchronization.

Having the IMAP go down for an hour was unacceptable. Sure, we could fire up a browser to read mail, but try explaining that to people scattered all over the Western Hemisphere whose primary communications channel is their email.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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