Comment Re:Depend on something... pay for admin (Score 5, Insightful) 408
Feel like I'm feeding a troll, but johnjones's ID is so low that I feel this silliness may be taken seriously:
how do you get the data out of gmail to switch providers ?
Same way you would do any remote hosted email migration. POP and IMAP. Additional tools are provided for Google Apps (their for-pay version).
ever serviced a discovery litigation from google ? (you know where they judge you guilty of you dont come up with the data)
sorry but there is a good reason to keep this stuff on site and working...
Umm, an hour of downtime doesn't mean your data is gone. I'll also echo earlier comments -- locally hosted email generally has more problems, as no company but the largest enterprise has the same magnitude of IT equipment and experience as Google.
I've never really understood why so many Slashdotters have this attitude about hosted services. Perhaps they are local IT folks for smaller companies, and fear for their jobs?