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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RE: MS Office and Google Apps: a happy couple
by tomcat on Thu 3rd Jul 2008 22:40
in reply to "MS Office and Google Apps: a happy couple"
Member since: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
RE[2]: MS Office and Google Apps: a happy couple
by irbis on Fri 4th Jul 2008 05:37
in reply to "RE: MS Office and Google Apps: a happy couple"
Member since:2005-07-08
Google Apps won't be "mature" until people really start using it.
Well, it depends, and naturally Google Apps is still young and a new thing indeed. Maybe it has not been useful for your company and business sector (yet?), but Google Apps is already used a lot where I work at, for example, so it is certainly mature and useful for us. And like I said, I know many other similar work places where they already use Google Apps a lot too.
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2005-07-08
MS Office (or OpenOffice) and Google Apps don't compete but rather complement each other quite nicely. Google Apps is for the web and MS Office for offline work.
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.
I know many work places where they happily use both MS Office and Google Apps together. And Google Apps are used a lot too - if and when there is a real need for such web-based tools. Why else would MS be developing its own competing solution now?
Edited 2008-07-03 21:02 UTC