Placing your bets on Enterprise Software Office 365 vs Google Apps The first thing any new company has to do is setup their domain, and choose their email provider. No one wants to build their own mail server infrastructure anymore, it simply doesn’t make sense. Our decision had nothing to do with cost because the fact is both work out to about the same price at the end of the day. The decision all boiled down to one thing: Gmail. Gmail is the Gateway Drug for Google Apps and Google knows this Office 365 mail is not the same as Outlook.com for some reason. Gmail is the only cross platform cloud email that allows for instant search, massive archives, ease of use, etc. You don’t need to download an email client to use it … and there’s better than instant cloud search vs local search for any email ever in a large archives. There are also many third party cloud plugins that just work with Gmail. Gmail is universally the same across all devices, and thus it is the gateway drug to Google Apps. Once you start working with the productivity tools you realize that calendaring on Outlook is much … Continue reading Cloud enterprise software: Google Apps vs Office 365