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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Mathew's comments - Latest Comments in Google turns up the heat on Office</title><link>http://mathewingram.disqus.com/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:13:21 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Google turns up the heat on Office</title><link>http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/10/google-turns-up-the-heat-on-office/#comment-1315794</link><description>Mathew,&lt;br&gt;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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also, what about the ZoHo's and ThinkFree's in this space?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks,&lt;br&gt;Rick</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rick Mahn</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:13:21 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>