From: Gary Britt 

Also, what about the security and privacy of corporate data that resides on
some other companies servers, and might be a lot more easily accessible
than breaking into a private company's internal network?

Gary

Rich Gauszka wrote:
>  "John Beckett"  wrote in message
> news:od0vt2di4e9t05n96s9jp5p1evqks0qugg{at}4ax.com...
>> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
>> news::
>>>> NO - a rental at $50 a year?
>>> No way.
>> Get used to it! In a few years that will be the only way to get
>> proprietary software of any kind.
>>
>> I include Windows in this prediction, but will allow a bit longer before a
>> subscription for Windows is mandatory.
>>
>> John
>>
>
> I'm not a business. When Office 2K will no longer load, OpenOffice or iWork
> on my Macbook will suffice for my needs.
>
> When Google brought out Docs and Spreadsheet in October they stated it was a
> complement to desktop products and not a competitor. Have they improved the
> product that much or is it just a repackging without ads? The reviews I've
> seen praise the sharing aspect but aren't as enthusiastic about the power of
> the apps themselves
>
> http://news.com.com/Google+combines+word+processing%2C+spreadsheets/2100-1032
_3-6124593.html
>
> Google is not targeting the desktop productivity suite market place that
> Microsoft dominates with Office, despite speculation that it is, said
> Jonathan Rochelle, Google Docs & Spreadsheets product manager.
>
> "It made sense to combine these products and people were asking
for that,"
> he said. "It doesn't change our strategy. This is complementary to desktop
> products...and lacks certain advanced features" of desktop products.
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129339-page,2-c,google/article.html#
> Many media outlets have billed Google Apps Premier Edition as an attempt to
> encroach on Microsoft Office, but that's comparing apples and oranges.
> Google Docs & Spreadsheets is hardly strong enough to wean anyone away from
> Microsoft Word or Excel, and many of the other Office applications are
> missing entirely from Google Apps. So no, GAPE isn't an Office killer and
> isn't designed to be.
>
> Google Apps Premier Edition's most notable competitor (in terms of interface
> and ease of use) is probably Microsoft's Office Live Premium (OLP), which
> offers 50 2GB e-mail accounts and a decent Web site builder for
> $39.95/month. Office Live Premium offers several features Google lacks, such
> as Web site reports. Furthermore, OLP lets you create and administer
> documents in a shared library easily; with GAPE you can share documents
> using Google Docs & Spreadsheets, but not with the elegance of a shared
> library.
>
> On the plus side, having a portal page for your business users (or external
> users such as partners or suppliers) in which you can share a calendar is a
> good idea for any business. And GAPE's guaranteed 99.9 percent e-mail uptime
> is attractive, as are 24/7 phone support and APIs for integration with your
> own apps. But what Google is really trying to sell are partnership products
> (for syncing/converting Exchange inboxes to Gmail and so on).
>
>
>

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