Shared Microsoft Exchange, a Shameless Plug
August 27th, 2007
My goal with this blog isn’t to shamelessly plug The Karcher Group’s Services, but in this case, I can’t resist. We just started offering a really cool service, Hosted Microsoft Exchange.
It also makes me cringe, to some degree, to be promoting a Microsoft product. I’m a huge fan of the Linux operating systems, for obvious reasons; cost and more importantly, reliability. However, with the Shared Exchange option Microsoft has really brought a great product to market. Anyone who relies heavily on Outlook and or Exchange, knows how nice it is to have easy access to your email and contacts, via their OWA (Outlook Web Access). Shared Exchange takes it to another level.
I happen to travel a lot, so I have several devices that I keep my email, contacts and calendar on, and MS Exchange makes that pretty darn easy. Quick access to my email is just an expectation I have now. But many businesses and small business owners, especially, don’t have this because it can be cost prohibitive. ‘Til you buy the licenses, hardware and a person to maintain an Exchange Server, it can be expensive. By launching the Shared Exchange option, MS has made it very affordable for a small business to have access to the cool features and availability of Exchange.
You don’t have the overhead and management, of the hardware, software and personnel. You simply pay a service fee and someone else handles all of that for you, and you get your email, contacts and calendar on your desktop, laptop, pda and whatever other devices you want.
