- Its free, in cash terms anyway
- No faffing (and expense) with security Certificates in order to get mail onto mobile devices
- You do not need a techie to set it up nor keep it running sweetly. Managing Exchange is becoming increasingly difficult and specialist (so expensive)
- No expensive, noisy server hardware or firewalls to buy, set-up, feed and be deafened buy (or rent in a server farm)
- Spam filtering is far better with Gmail
- Gmail connects with Outlook, Apple Mail, most flavours of phone et al seamlessly, painlessly and easily
- and synchronises across all, so a Sent item from one device appears on the others
- You can still keep your own domain name, email addresses do not have to be me@gmail.com but can still be me@mycompany.com.
- Further, If you need multiple identities (me@myothercompanies.com etc), no problem
- You can easly see your email from any old internet cafe browser without having to set-up Outlook Web Access
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