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December 1, 2010 - 12:00 P.M.
Enterprise email: News of its death greatly exaggerated
- TAGS:e-mail, email, email postage, enterprise, FUSSP, Insider Content, instant messaging, messaging, Robert X. Cringely, SMS, spam, spammer, spammers, spamming, text messaging, texting
- IT TOPICS:Cybercrime & Hacking, Desktop Apps, Emerging Technology, Enterprise Apps, Internet, Mobile, Security Hardware & Software
By Richi Jennings. December 1, 2010.
Email is dying, say the pundits. It's being replaced by social media and texting, they claim. Balderdash, say I. Email is alive and thriving in the enterprise. Even if Robert X. Cringely disagrees with me. See what I mean, in The Long View...
Two weeks ago, I referred to a "naively-imagined death-march of email" -- a couple of readers asked me what I meant by that. Well, every so often, an influential pundit comes up with the idea that email is somehow "dying." These people should know better.
It ain't so, and today I aim to say why.
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