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Google turns up the heat on Office

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

Not that long ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt would routinely deny that the company had any intention of using its Gmail, Google Docs and other services to compete directly with Microsoft’s Office suite. “We’re just playing around with some Web stuff,” ... Continue reading »

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  • Mathew,
    I agree that Google will continue to have some small but significant wins in the coming years. However, the enterprise will prove to be a tough nut to crack for them for all the reasons you site along with the aspect that they just don't have a compelling strategy for the large corporation.

    As you may recall, Microsoft also had a difficult time getting into the enterprise space, and to this day is sometimes not taken as seriously as Bill 'n Steve would like.

    Things are of course changing on all fronts, and as Google addresses their current shortcomings, the data ownership/security issues are defined, and the stigma of Internet-based applications dissapates, this will be a different ball game than we have today.

    Also, what about the ZoHo's and ThinkFree's in this space?

    Thanks,
    Rick

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