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Google Apps to Become Paid Service

Posted by samzenpus on from the google-is-coming dept.

FredDC writes "Business Week reports Google Apps is becoming a paid service soon for companies who wish to use it for their domain. Disney and Pixar are reportedly thinking about switching to Google Apps instead of using Microsoft Office. Could this be the end of a monopoly? Or the start of a new one?"

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  1. Re:Let's see... by anomalous+cohort · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Contrary to the title, it's not MS-Office that google is going after, it is Exchange.

    Every Exchange admin I have ever spoken with claims that it is a nightmare to set up and maintain. There is a trend now to outsource that functionality. Google is targeting that market.

  2. Tinfoil hat time by TinBromide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Simply because a tiger hasn't eaten your face yet doesn't mean it won't in the future. We should be as suspicious of google as we are of any other big software company. Just because they have a catchy bumper sticker slogan doesn't inoculate them to the temptations of corporate culture.

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    Is it sad that I am more likely to recognize you and your posts by your sig than your name or UID?
    1. Re:Tinfoil hat time by EvanED · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Should we be suspicious of every large business that started out small?

      Yes. (Then again, I tend to be very cynical about companies in general.)

      At what point does a small, presumably non-corporate business become "big" and full of the "temptations of corporate culture"?

      Hard to say, but if you can influence back door sessions of state legislatures I think that's a good indication you've crossed the boundary.