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Skriven 2007-02-23 20:09:14 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Good enough?
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com>

 "John Beckett" <johnXsecondary@tpgXcomXau> wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer" <bobcomer@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:<45df10fc@w3.nls.net>:
>> > NO - a rental at $50 a year?
>>
>> No way.
>
> Get used to it! In a few years that will be the only way to get
> proprietary software of any kind.
>
> I include Windows in this prediction, but will allow a bit longer before a
> subscription for Windows is mandatory.
>
> John
>

I'm not a business. When Office 2K will no longer load, OpenOffice or iWork on
my Macbook will suffice for my needs.

When Google brought out Docs and Spreadsheet in October they stated it was a
complement to desktop products and not a competitor. Have they improved the
product that much or is it just a repackging without ads? The reviews I've seen
praise the sharing aspect but aren't as enthusiastic about the power of the
apps themselves

http://news.com.com/Google+combines+word+processing%2C+spreadsheets/2100-1032_3
-6124593.html

Google is not targeting the desktop productivity suite market place that
Microsoft dominates with Office, despite speculation that it is, said Jonathan
Rochelle, Google Docs & Spreadsheets product manager.

"It made sense to combine these products and people were asking for that," he
said. "It doesn't change our strategy. This is complementary to desktop
products...and lacks certain advanced features" of desktop products.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129339-page,2-c,google/article.html#
Many media outlets have billed Google Apps Premier Edition as an attempt to
encroach on Microsoft Office, but that's comparing apples and oranges. Google
Docs & Spreadsheets is hardly strong enough to wean anyone away from Microsoft
Word or Excel, and many of the other Office applications are missing entirely
from Google Apps. So no, GAPE isn't an Office killer and isn't designed to be.

Google Apps Premier Edition's most notable competitor (in terms of interface
and ease of use) is probably Microsoft's Office Live Premium (OLP), which
offers 50 2GB e-mail accounts and a decent Web site builder for
$39.95/month. Office Live Premium offers several features Google lacks, such
as Web site reports. Furthermore, OLP lets you create and administer documents
in a shared library easily; with GAPE you can share documents using Google Docs
& Spreadsheets, but not with the elegance of a shared library.

On the plus side, having a portal page for your business users (or external
users such as partners or suppliers) in which you can share a calendar is a
good idea for any business. And GAPE's guaranteed 99.9 percent e-mail uptime is
attractive, as are 24/7 phone support and APIs for integration with your own
apps. But what Google is really trying to sell are partnership products (for
syncing/converting Exchange inboxes to Gmail and so on).

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