Linked by David Adams on Thu 3rd Jul 2008 19:06 UTC, submitted by snydeq
Google Despite holding grassroots appeal among guerrilla IT workers fed up with IT's sluggish responses to their requests, Google Apps' traction in the enterprise remains overblown. Sure, Google claims more than 500,000 companies have signed up for Google Apps, but according to Gartner, only a handful of employees at each company uses the tools. Comparing that with Microsoft Office's 500 million users, Garnter analyst Tom Austin calls Google Apps' cloud-computing impression on the enterprise 'a raindrop.'
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tomcat
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2006-01-06

Like the article says Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta is the competing solution from MS - but still far from being as mature as Google Apps is...


Google Apps won't be "mature" until people really start using it. And, no, people aren't really using it yet in significant numbers.

Edited 2008-07-03 22:45 UTC

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