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Google Apps Premier Edition Launches

Posted by kdawson on from the en-garde-Office dept.

prostoalex writes "Google Apps is adding a premium offering: a custom 10-GB Gmail box, Google Calendar, GTalk instant messenger, Writely, Google Pages, Google Custom home page iGoogle and Google SpreadSheets for $50 a year per employee. The NYTimes provides some details on competitive pricing: 'By comparison, businesses pay on average about $225 a person annually for Office and Exchange,... in addition to the costs of in-house management, customer support and hardware, according to the market research firm Gartner.' Boston.com quotes an analyst for Nucleus Research on Google's ease-of-use: '"What we see in the Google Apps is a real focus on making them easy to use and intuitive," she said. "And that's something that Microsoft has been unable to do in all of its years with Office."' But the same analyst is bearish on Google Apps' shortcomings relative to the mature Microsoft desktop products: 'Right now Google's going to give companies a better ability to negotiate with Microsoft.'"

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  1. Re:Instant messenger? by russ1337 · · Score: 2, Funny

    >>> Why not just, like, meet? It can be pretty productive with all of the 'high productivity' tools out there like... pencils, paper, whiteboards and pens."

    Because it takes FOREVER to write debug errors on the whiteboard.

    (stoopid whiteboard with no cut-n-paste.)

  2. Re:Instant messenger? by dubrie · · Score: 5, Funny

    And, if you work in a small (

    You probably just got distracted by an instant message while typing.
    --
    if by boo you mean yeah, boo-yeah!
  3. Re:Instant messenger? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think one of the "secrets" is that
    1. All the members in the conversation *must* know how to touchtype (or at least write faaast).
    2. All the members in the conversation *must* agree to write 1 paragraph with one idea per "message" I\n, hate\n, when\n, people\n, writes\n, one\n, word\n, and\n ,press\n enter\n.


    I don't think that word means what you think it means.
  4. Re:If you haven't already... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Oh you are a fucking douchebag. Yay, I do double the work! See how cool and nerdy I am?

  5. Re:Instant messenger? by zaydana · · Score: 2, Funny

    2. All the members in the conversation *must* agree to write 1 paragraph with one idea per "message" I\n, hate\n, when\n, people\n, writes\n, one\n, word\n, and\n ,press\n enter\n. cool.