Re:My First Impressions of Web3
by throw_nbvc1234 on Friday January 07, 2022 @09:31PM
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How many (large) companies, governments, etc... run their own email servers? If there's a strong enough need, people will run their own servers even if they'd rather not. "people don't want to run servers" arguably could be rephrased as "people don't have a reason (today) to run their own servers". I'd argue this is a key difference between web1 and cryto centralization and the web2 centralization. If Google announced tomorrow that anyone can buy the gmail contents of any gmail address, you'd bet a lot more individuals would either switch to alternatives or start running their own severs.
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> How many (large) companies, governments, etc... run their own email servers
Every year a decreasing number as everything moves to SaaS and the cloud.
Re:My First Impressions of Web3
by tsimionescu on Saturday January 08, 2022 @03:23AM
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> How many (large) companies, governments, etc... run their own email servers?
Office 365 financials alone suggest that the answer is "very few, and rapidly decreasing". I work for a ~30k employee technology company that doesn't run it's own email servers.
Should be pretty easy to find the top 100/1000/10000 companies and look at their MX records.
I’d imagine it’s a large number of Office 365, GSuite by Google and Barracuda/ProofPoint which may point to a SaaS thing or an internal server.