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Ärende: Re: Good enough?
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com>

It's much more than one buried article. just a few of a google of em below. I
really wonder how much of the SMB market they'll acquire and how much that
market really requires the shared/collaboration feature ( it may appeal to
educational markets though). I'd  also say the real competition here for SMB is
not Office but OpenOffice for any small business seeking to reduce cost.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2007-02-22-google-apps_x.htm

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Infotech/Internet__Te
lecom/Google_offers_biz_software_via_subscription/articleshow/1657804.cms

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/02/22/ap3451579.html

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2097725,00.asp

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/article2298300.ece

http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2007/02/19/daily37.html

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1592630,00.html

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=28e79f6b-a47e-41
4d-bd55-809c39d72ea7&k=47673

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=54
143%2022-Feb-2007%20RTRS&WTmodLoc=SciHealth-R6-MostRead-1

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=8507
>
> I'd hardly call it an uproar.  One article buried in the WSJ, a couple
> of messages by me on an out-of-the-way message board.    It's not like
> google is spending $500 million to promote a dead-on-arrival OS.
>
> However, considering I have read that Microsoft is targeting the SMB
> category, those testimonials make sense.   Just as Google's spreadsheet
> solved the problem I had (and did so within an hour), when MS Excel
> could not.
>
> /m
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:54:45 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
> <gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Google's own list of testimonials fails to impress ( see link below ). I'm
>>really not attempting to bash the product sight unseen but just feel all
>>the
>>positive uproar is quite a bit premature. I did attempt the product tour
>>but
>>it takes me into a sign-up of the product  and the creation of a domain (
>>2nd link )
>>
>>http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/testimonials.html
>>
>>http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/tour.html
>>
>>
>>"mike" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
>>news:255vt2pjjjtik5v7op10f904f0edhi9tel@4ax.com...
>>> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:09:15 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
>>> <gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>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?
>>>
>>>
>>> So far there appear to be two levels of the google product.  The free
>>> version, and the new enterprise-level version (that comes with a SLA).
>>>
>>> /m
>>

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