Businesses are looking to abandon email according to MacWorld.Com.
The reason is the time wasted in deleting the irrelevant communiques much less actually reading them.
“People who read email changed screeds twice as often and maintained heart rates in a steady ‘high alert’ state,” according to a study this year by U.C. Irvine and the U.S. Army. Those removed from removed from email for five days experienced more natural, variable heart rates.”
Replacement technology ranges from subscription services like Socialtext that has a $5,000 per starting price; to things that start free like Dropbox, which, by the way also makes a great off-site back up system; to things that are free such as company blogs and wikis.