Some small business owners may find managing their own in-house email servers too expensive, or unnecessary, given their number of employees. However, you don’t need to host your own email solution in order to obtain professional email addresses for employees that incorporate your company’s domain name. Google Apps can provide your business with Gmail accounts that use your own domain name rather than gmail.com. Like free Gmail accounts, business Gmail accounts are hosted by Google and can be used with desktop email clients such as Outlook, Thunderbird and Mac OS X Mail.