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Private label Gmail

I've heard again and again...

"I'd love to use Gmail for my company mail and can POP mail *IN* but can't send mail with my company domain *OUT*. I'd pay to be able to do this!"

So this raises the following questions for me:Some questions:

What size would the market be for this in the A) personal B) small/home-office and C) medium/large corporate spaces? Would individuals and companies really ditch Outlook/Exchange?
Would this 'private label' version of Gmail still show ads?
Would it cost money? If so, how much, and if not, would ads be the only revenue stream?
When can we expect to see this new offering?

My guesses:

A) Not large. Individuals with their own domains probably want the extra features that geek-mail-software offers, or the integration with Palm and such that Outlook offers.
B) Pretty substantial. Folks in this position may travel a bunch and really relish being able to check and send (branded) e-mail from any computer. Also, they're not likely to have MS Exchange set up.
C) Questionable. Such firms likely are too entrenched in an Exchange environment and have security / privacy concerns that have already been QA'd against Outlook.
By default, yes, but you could pay (extra) to get rid of them.
I anticipate a three tier set of offerings: Free (current version), Private Domains, and Enterprise, with only the latter having a fee based upon number of seats. No idea of the cost per seat, though.
September 12, 2005 or April 1, 2006

Your thoughts?

- Blathered by Adam on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at 13:43 [ Permalink | Trackback ]
- Filed under Google
- Commented on by 9 folks so far. Scroll down and see for yourself (and join in the conversation!)

Comment from pb [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	IMAP would also be a requirement. POP is entirely inadequate. - Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at 21:02 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Sam [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Spetember 12th? why then? - Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 at 13:14 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member Adam San Francisco [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Why Sept 12? As usual, no inside info… just occasionally good guesses I know, I know… magic is more fun when you don’t know how the hot dogs are made (how’s that for mixed metaphors), but I’ll share how I came to the Sept 12th guess: - It’s a Monday. - It’s after Intern Time. - It’s a prime corporate-purchasing time. - Not too close to summer vacation, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Tax Day. - Not too close to April 1 (’cause that’d be the more fun time to release this stuff) I was nearly spot on with my flickr-acquisition date guess (okay, admittedly the wrong COMPANY, but hey, let’s not get too picky). So let’s see how close I get on this one - Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 at 21:04 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Josh [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	I think it might farther out than a year. Keep in mind, they don’t have the public version out of beta. They would first have to “release” Gmail to the public before considering releasing corporate versions. - Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at 10:56 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from marks [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	http://broker.stock-a.com/gorilla/ jerksmascotreturn - Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 at 15:58 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from term [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	http://www.boulderfilms.org/legend/ complimentwhosewondered - Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 at 17:31 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from John Buy a Business [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Which facilities are there in corporate versions. - Posted on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 23:48 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member JJtheSmartGuy [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Hey Adam, will you please let us know about New G Mail Labs? Waiting for reply. - Posted on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 18:51 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member SEO Firm [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	You may have more information regarding GMail Labs at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-labs Thank you. - Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 22:11 [ Permalink to this comment ]

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