Speak to me about Office365 and Google Apps

DoubleCheese

DoubleCheese

DoubleCheese

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For a small business with <10 staff which is the better solution for Email and sharing/collaborating?

We currently already have MS Office 2010 Business on all our desktops and our Exchange email is currently on a SBS2003 server in the office, but its old and playing up, so we are considering putting our email in the "Cloud".

We share a files within the office and will have a low power PC for serving some Applications and files to the desktops and for backing them up too.

Considering we already have MS Office 2010 Business, is Office365 better suited or would Google Apps be a similar or better solution?
 
I would have thought neither. You already have office and a server to share files. IF all you need to fix is the email problem then get hosted exchange solution from one of the thousands of providers, such as TSOHost (many others available).

No point in changing just for the sake of change with no benefit.
 
TRNC said:
I would have thought neither. You already have office and a server to share files. IF all you need to fix is the email problem then get hosted exchange solution from one of the thousands of providers, such as TSOHost (many others available).

No point in changing just for the sake of change with no benefit.
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Doesn't look like TSOHost are able to compete on price with many of the hosted exchange providers. £9.99 is the price we used to charge people for mailboxes some years ago before licensing changes, and Office365 came along. These days it's more like half that.

For webhosting though TSO are one of the best!

We've actually seen massive growth in mailbox numbers over the past months, everyone talks about a recession but we're seeing hundreds of new ones being added every week almost without fail.
 
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TSOHost can't compete with Office365 or Google Apps for Business cost wise, neither can a few other hosts that I've looked at actually.

I'm tempted by Google Apps for Business due to the lower and simpler pricing structure.
 
DoubleCheese said:
TSOHost can't compete with Office365 or Google Apps for Business cost wise, neither can a few other hosts that I've looked at actually.

I'm tempted by Google Apps for Business due to the lower and simpler pricing structure.
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Never said they could, merely suggested them as a possible source of hosted exchange services as we use them for our multiple websites and find them to be excellent.
 
TRNC said:
Never said they could, merely suggested them as a possible source of hosted exchange services as we use them for our multiple websites and find them to be excellent.
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Yeah as I mentioned as well, for websites I think they are one of the top of their class, but it seems their Exchange products are more of a sideline, kind of like how our main business is Hosted Exchange where I work but we offer some website hosting as well (DNS/WebServers).
 
we use Office 2010 and onenote for most things.

Exchange email is provided externally and has proved great! Have got a Google account but never found the move to use Google full time just doesn't have the integration I am looking for.
 
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