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Google Apps to Become Paid Service
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?"
It should be:
All your email are belong to us.
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
Disney and Pixar have close ties to Apple, who has close ties to Google. When GE has decided to drop Microsoft Office for Google Apps, then that'll be newsworthy.
Also, the moment Microsoft sees that their market dominance of Office is dwindling, they'll lower the price. Corporations are still willing to shell out big bucks for Office over free alternatives simply due to the corporate-friendly nature of Office.
I use NeoOffice on my Mac (a nice OpenOffice port that doesn't run in X11), and while it's good for personal use, it stinks for business use. Office is still king.
Google is the poster child of the 2000, just like Microsoft was during the 1990. But noone stays pretty forever - except me. I never believed the "do no evil" mantra and this is only another sign IMO that google is morphing and will become as bad or worse than any other major corp.