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What people havn't understood yet is that Google is a product company and not a service company. Despite all the nice talk about consumerisation of IT, corporate cusomers want a service company. A company that picks up the phone, engages itself with an SLA and actually puts the Customer First. Google is miles away from such a corporate culture. This does not mean that the SAAS market does not have a very bright future, just that the winners will probably be focused companies considering this their core busines. Check out companies such as http://www.contactoffice.com/ http://www.37signals.com/

ContactOffice is a collaborative and messaging platform offered in Software as a Service. ContactOffice's has recently rewritten its entire UI using Google Web Toolkit. In order to do so they had to add numerous features to GWT (drag and drop, marquee selection, contextual menus, sortable columns, resizable panels). It is according to Google engineers one of the largest and most advanced web application built using their framework. Joel Webber the co-founder of GWT endorsed the work done at CO at: http://blog.contactoffice.com/index.php/2008/01/03/nice-endorsement-for-contactoffice-by-gwt-team/. The CTO Luc Claes was invited by Google to present the work done at the last JAVAONE conference. You can also find some other GWT applications on the following site: http://www.ongwt.com/category/GWT-Application

ContactOffice is a collaborative and messaging platform offered in Software as a Service. ContactOffice's has recently rewritten its entire UI using Google Web Toolkit. In order to do so they had to add numerous features to GWT (drag and drop, marquee selection, contextual menus, sortable columns, resizable panels). It is according to Google engineers one of the largest and most advanced web application built using their framework. Joel Webber the co-founder of GWT endorsed the work done at CO at: http://blog.contactoffice.com/index.php/2008/01/03/nice-endorsement-for-contactoffice-by-gwt-team/. The CTO Luc Claes was invited by Google to present the work done at the last JAVAONE conference. You can also find some other GWT applications on the following site: http://www.ongwt.com/category/GWT-Application

I use http://www.contactoffice.com/ since 2001 and they're doing a pretty good job as an online application and data repository (virtual office).

http://www.contactoffice.com/ has a Web interface AND a Wap interface for access by your mobile phone AND a Pocket Internet explorer interface if your phone or PDA runs Windows Mobile edition. Just try it, there is a free version. See the full list here : http://www.contactoffice.com/description/solutions /index.jsp?menu=Solutions&item=Mobility&locale=en_ UK

http://www.contactoffice.com/ has a Web interface AND a Wap interface for access by your mobile phone AND a Pocket Internet explorer interface if your phone or PDA runs Windows Mobile edition. Just try it, there is a free version. See the full list here : http://www.contactoffice.com/description/solutions /index.jsp?menu=Solutions&item=Mobility&locale=en_ UK

I suggest your try http://www.contactoffice.com/ as it is a web application suite featuring calendar, address books, webmail, document, tasks, wiki, etc. It has a UNIQUE FEATURE : a synchronisation software companion that sync it with both Outlook / Exchange and Palm. Here is the full list it support : Outlook (97, 98, 2000, 2002/XP, 2003, Express), Pocket PC via Outlook, Casio Cassiopeia Series via Outlook, Compaq iPaq via Outlook, Dell Axim via Outlook, Handspring Visor, IBM WorkPad, HP Jornada Series via Outlook, Palm (III, V, Zire, Tungsten), Sony (Clié, PEG-300), Palm Desktop (until 4.1.2), Lotus Organizer (5.0, 6.0), Windows Address Book - WAB, Windows CE via Outlook, Windows CE via Schedule+, Microsoft Schedule+ (7.0a, 7.5), Audiovox Thera via Outlook, Fujitsu Pocket Look via Outlook, HP H5450 via Outlook, HP H5450 via Outlook, Qualcomm PDQ 800 Smartphone, Qualcomm PDQ 1900 Smartphone, Symbol SPT 1500, Symbol SPT 1700, Toshiba E330 via Outlook, Toshiba E350 via Outlook, Toshiba E740 BT via Outlook, Toshiba E759 Wifi via Outlook... and many more devices.

There is an alternative to Exchange, actually it is already used by 350.000 members in europe and accessilbe in the USA on http://www.office.com/. Developped since 1998 in Belgium this web application integrate webmail (with filters, fax/SMS integration), group calendaring (with killing features like display common available time slot in a group, full inviting system with response tracking, iCal export, SMS reminders, ...), document sharing (with webDAV access), address book (with PDF printing, group sharing of contact, vCard export, ...), todos, wikis, notes, chat, forum. Web interface, Pocket PC web interface, WAP interface, ... See http://www.contactoffice.com/ for more information. ContactOffice runs as an ASP with both free (limited) and subscription model (several plans). Jut try it ;-)

Just like ContactOffice which integrate webmail and group calendar : http://www.contactoffice.com/

ContactOffice http://www.contactoffice.com/ is not an office suite but a central repository for data (documents, contacts, etc.) that you can access from any connected device (computer, PDA, smartphone, etc.). For documents, they provide WebDAV access (with SSL) so you don't need to use the Web interface. They also provide POP3-S client and server. The client device still manages the office app and it works fine this way.