Linked by David Adams on Thu 3rd Jul 2008 19:06 UTC, submitted by snydeq
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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2006-11-17
Mobility, perhaps?
It's not desktop quality, but when I'm in a new place, I don't want to setup my pop3, install my office tools, and copy the data from my usb key and then start work. I want to launch whatever browser is available and start work. Then I don't want to deal with backups and security. Google does that for me. I only want to do the actual work wherever I am.
It's not desktop quality, but it is available everywhere. Look at the webmail. How many people are still using thunderbird or outlook these days? Those who need the extra functionality, but for the other 90%, webmail is quite enough and available here, there and over there. How many people need to put highres videos on their documents? Not me actually. My documents are very simple and Google apps is more enough for my needs.