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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2005-10-31
One way I see Google making inroads into the current enterprise ecosystem is if they can make it easy to publish MS Office documents to Google Docs. in 2007 and 2003 as well I guess, there is the ability to "Publish" a document to a "workspace" like sharepoint or webdav. I have always wondered, how I could point it to Google Apps.