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December 29, 2009 | Rick Nashleanas
We have drunk the Google Kool Aid. Instead of hosting email, we point at a Google business account for Monarch and our customers. We use Google docs, Google Voice, and so forth. The biggest problem our customers have had in moving away from Microsoft Outlook and Office has been using their mail and applications off line. I’ve always suggested using Google Gears, which synchronizes your email and documents on your laptop, not only giving you offline access, but a local backup.
However, Google will be gradually be phasing out Google Gears in favor of using HTML 5, which will more natively give similar functionality. This could be worrysome, except it appears that this change will be gradual and, some apps, like Gmail, are actively using Google Gears.
Rather than answer worried questions from our customers about losing their offline access and local versions of their email and documents, I wanted to document here that I personally use Google Gears and will alert you here should you need to change or remove Google gears to get the offline access and backup provided by Gears.
