Business use of GMAIL

I was reading an article this morning on how the City of Los Angeles, CA is switching to the web based email service from Google.  The deal is for $7.2 Million bucks and would move their 30,000 users into Google's cloud-based computing. 

I have used this service as my primary business email for a couple months now and am very impressed with its spam-filtering abilities along with the ease of use.

A basic version of their service is free and the pro is only $50 per year per user.

Besides the email features, it also includes Google Talk, shared docs, shared calendar, shared video and a host of other Google offerings.

Setup isn't very difficult.  But it does require a DNS setting change.  Administration is via an easy-to-use control panel.

Watch, in the future for more early adopters to make the switch from standard email solutions or even Microsoft Exchange over to Google Apps.

Dan