Google Apps Slow to Replace Competition

ericatcw brings us a Computerworld article about how businesses are still hesitant to switch to Google Apps as an alternative to Microsoft Office. While a Google spokesman claims "millions of active users", only "several thousand organizations" have paid for the Premier service, which was launched earlier this year. From Computerworld: "'If we deploy it correctly, Google Docs can replace some [of] our Office apps -- but not all of them,' said Les Sease, IT director of Prudential Carolina Real Estate in North Charleston, South Carolina. Sease would like to switch everyone over completely to Google Apps. But first he would like to see better synchronization between Google Apps and mobile devices, shared online file storage similar to that of Apple Inc.'s .Mac, as well as a simple desktop publishing tool similar to Microsoft Publisher."

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[DerekLyons]

Your response is a misdirection.

No, it is a response to your (false) implication that Google Apps are like the transistor radio - wildly sucessful because it filled it a niche market with little competition. I then go further and show how that 'sucess' is actually quite limited, as invariably the product is discarded for another as the customer ages.
 
 

Google is a great company today because it saw that you don't try to sell Linux to the same customers who buy Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office the same way that Microsoft sells those products: in a desktop computer or notebook used by power users. At least not at first. Instead, rent Linux to them 1/10th of a second at a time.

ROTFLMAO. Google neither rents nor sells Linux - the OS of it's web applications are utterly irrelevant.
 
 

[snippage of your further application of case studies to situations where they have no relevance.]

You have no fucking clue what you are talking about.