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No business with any sense is going to rely on Gmail for their internal business communications

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/customers/ says you are wrong.

And I don't think that's a bad thing - Facebook is a problem, not Google. Don't tar every company with the same brush.

Any companies on that list using Gmail as their primary email service are foolish. But I'm not sure why you think I was somehow equating Facebook with Google simply because I don't agree that everyone has Gmail and is using it.

I use google apps to host my email for my company, with all emails backed up to our server. Why is that foolish?

Ah, now here's a different thing: should a comet fall on Google's data centres, you still keep your data. I infer that you probably thought about privacy risks. I also suppose your company's email address isn't "@gmail.com". That would be foolish.

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