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6 months ago
in GMail is a Platform, Have You Noticed? on Oracle AppsLab
Bravo great post ( err that means, I agree ;-) ).
Email still remains at the center of my professional and personal life. Having that as a platform makes six billion times more sense to me compared to s'thing like f8.
I think we should give credit to where it is due. Buchheit completely turned around our expectations about email. I remember jotting things down as the search in Outlook sucked so bad. Now, after having uploaded all my big pst files, it just takes me max a minute to find what I want.
Admittedly, I am not a big user of other featuers of a PIM, except calendar and that too because I am forced to. But there, Outlook/Exchange seems to score.
Jake - just curious, u use OCS among u guys ? I sorta liked some of its features when in Orcl but traction in market has not still been achieved it seems.
Email still remains at the center of my professional and personal life. Having that as a platform makes six billion times more sense to me compared to s'thing like f8.
I think we should give credit to where it is due. Buchheit completely turned around our expectations about email. I remember jotting things down as the search in Outlook sucked so bad. Now, after having uploaded all my big pst files, it just takes me max a minute to find what I want.
Admittedly, I am not a big user of other featuers of a PIM, except calendar and that too because I am forced to. But there, Outlook/Exchange seems to score.
Jake - just curious, u use OCS among u guys ? I sorta liked some of its features when in Orcl but traction in market has not still been achieved it seems.
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I'm not a huge consumer of the other stuff GMail offers, but I like that I could use if I wanted, e.g. if I'm on a computer that's not my own checking email, I have IM and Twitter without any additional cookies.
We do use OCS and Beehive. I read mail with TBird, and use Google Desktop for search; TBird's search has improved, but it's still too slow for me.