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Google Releasing an Office Suite
prostoalex writes "Google Apps for Your Domain is Google's entrance into the office productivity world, but contrary to popular expectations, the company is not shipping word processor or spreadsheet for corporate use just yet. Google, Inc. bundled e-mail client (Gmail), shared calendaring environment (Google Calendar), instant messaging client (GTalk) and HTML page generator (Google Page Creator) to be used across specific domains. The service will be ad-supported, reports the Associated Press." From that article: "The free edition of Apps for Your Domain is, like Google's main site, supported with ads. By the end of the year, the company also plans to launch a paid version that will offer more storage, some degree of support, and likely, no ads. A price for this edition hasn't been set. Providing e-mail and other applications for businesses moves Google closer into what has traditionally been turf occupied by Microsoft Corp. Earlier this year, Google released a program that builds simple Excel-type spreadsheets but lets users access them on the Web."
Well done.
I have tried both ms office live and google app service. Frankly I tried to upload a excel sheet containing 20K+records (size around 400kb), google simply failed. Google website template are really bad however gmail give better User experience than window live mail. Microsoft give free domain (for example my domain enterprisemobilityindia.org) while google ask you to setup your domain (example www.fanclubindia.com). My concern on both cases, I shall have to be bounded by either microsoft or google. Today they may not be charging but you cannot be sure about this in future. I can get cheap root server and lots of opensource software to run my server. I think it is not prudent to go either google way or microsoft way!
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