[sspiff]

This looks really well done, but as a consumer I wouldn't trust a small-timer (no offense) with something as ubiquitous as my email.

As a company looking to self-host, however, your product looks very appealing, but then your battling other players than just GMail. I think in the corporate sector, it would be very hard to dislodge Outlook, which is a shame really.

[jubari]

This is actually my biggest concern, so no offense taken:

Despite Google's privacy policy and ad behaviour (yadda yadda), they ARE still a trustworthy company, regarding uptime , backups and everything technical. Though I remember them losing quite a few accounts about a year back. But still, your point is very valid. Why would anyone trust a small company (or even single hacker) to maintain your precious emails.

[sspiff]

I think some of the things that could help are:

* A very straightforward exit strategy: make it easy for users to at least extract their mail from your service, if they host it on your servers, and want to have an offline backup.

* Offer an option to license for self-hosting: hosting their own email could take away their fear of uncontrollable downtime.

[jetti]

"I think in the corporate sector, it would be very hard to dislodge Outlook, which is a shame really."

I'm not sure how hard it would be to take some Outlook Web Access share away if targeting smaller companies since the cost could be potentially lower and licensing agreements potentially much easier to understand.

[smiler]

Have you seen office365.com? $6 a month per user for cloud Exchange, web e-mail, full Outlook integration if you want, plus online storage, view and editing of Word, Excel & Powerpoint. It's a lot to compete with for $6 a month.

[jetti]

Oh wow, ya it is a lot for a little and it is only $2 per user more if you go over 25 users. I didn't realize that you could just get online only.