Outlook Inertia the Main Factor Holding Business From Google Apps

Meshach writes "There's an interesting article in PC World claiming that the major factor preventing businesses from transferring their communication interface from Outlook to Google Apps is employees' unwillingness to give up a tool that's so familiar. Basically, Google is underestimating how attached businesses and their workers are to Office and Outlook in particular. Quoting: 'Google has found out that, yes, many companies are happy to ditch Exchange for Gmail if it means saving money and eliminating the grief of maintaining Exchange in-house. However, and maybe to a degree unexpected by Google, it also discovered that many companies consider it a deal-breaker to lose the functionality that the Outlook-Exchange combo provides, thanks to the deep links that exist between this client-server tandem.'"

Comments

Re:Market it to Notes users

[LibertineR]

Nope. Notes users are like abused women. They really believe that this time, everything will be okay, if they can only FORGIVE....

SEE? Just like a woman!

[LibertineR]

Oh come on now. He isn't all that bad. Sure, he has his issues. He is slow. He is bloated. He doesn't treat me correctly. He's complex. He's slow. The way he treats me leaves a lot to be desired. Sure, I would rather he talked to me instead of punch me in the face. He is slow. He has a hard time staying employed. But really, he's not THAT bad...

Re:Can you help me?

[hedwards]

Yes, and for $10 I'll tell you.

Is English your first language?

[Anonymous Coward]

I made some corrections to your post. There were so many simple mistakes that I felt you could probably benefit from some help. I encourage you to keep studying English!

Google appears to be actually focusing on email's replacement, and to me it looks very promising. Wave combines email, instant messaging, and collaboration. You can run it on Google's servers or on your own. It's very promising.
http://wave.google.com/ (If you used HTML tags, you could cut down on extraneous text.)

Wave addresses some common irritations with email: replying to one person, replying to the group, making sure everyone's included, and trying to coordinate on one document via email and constant back and forth emails

Now, the last sentence doesn't really make any sense. I don't think it is an English problem, but a communication problem. You haven't explained how any of those things are irritations with email. Additionally, the "coordinate on one document" concept isn't clear at all.

I suggest you take this to your ESL professor for some better help and suggestions. He (or she) could give you more information about the proper use of punctuation and verb tenses. Your professor would probably also have time to help you formulate your last sentence into something comprehensible.

Good luck! I know learning a new language is tough, but you seem like you're well on your way.

Re:Too much in too little time

[Will.Woodhull]

Wow.

I cannot believe that you loaded that metaphorical shotgun with spaghetti and fired it at the wall.

Now clean up your metaphorical mess and don't do that again.

Re:You can use outlook

[fat_mike]

Um, corporate IT doesn't only consist of managing Exchange. There are enterprise virus/malware scanners that will isolate a machine from the network when something is detected which usually never happens cause there are also enterprise solutions that catch that stuff at the entry point to the network. All this stuff is run by, you know IT PROFESSIONALS WHO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

Re:Exchange-Outlook-SharePoint, baby!

[Robert Larson]

Google isn't evil so this doesn't matter. They said so themsleves.

Re:SEE? Just like a woman!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm autonomous, you insensitive racist!