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. Software Development