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I think this was bound to happen. I was quite interested by the pricing model. I feel that Atlassian have benefited from non-cost per seat options.
I'm not so sure. Is price and accessibility a category killer? I dont think so. Office 2007 is on my notebook and it's brilliant. Google Apps is a pale copy (probably behind Open Office). I don't think it will dominate, but it is a good option for some users.
I suspect though that collaboration and web content integration (flickr, youtube, etc) does have the potential to upset the apple cart.
Could you see any non-small company adopting Google apps as standard in the next year?
Well they do have their "partners" like GE and Proctor Gambol. Don't know if they're really using it or just considering it. I certainly use Google Docs as it is, but I don't think it will threaten Microsoft Office in most major companies anytime soon.
I don't like the idea of online apps - some stuff is too important to risk not being able to connect at the crucial moment
I would rather have all my documents, programs etc. stored locally
I am have openofficeportable, its ment for usb sticks but using only 60mb's i couldn;t say no, it works well but doesn;t take up too much memory =)
I have openoffice portable on an external hard drive (along with portable Firefox, Gimp, VLC media player and 7-zip)
and you've just reminded me that now I have a bigger USB drive I probably have room for all this on there as well, thanks
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Kind of offtopic, just found about this online web processor from Scbole's blog, apparently it's the first "real" word processor online
Google Apps are great, but we can't compare it to MS Office yet. Especially with MS Office 2007. But I believe in Google and I think that in a near future we are going to see Google Office with the same functions MS Office has (it would be great). For now I have to use MS Office 2003, cause 2007 is too expensive :(
This is a killer product
Sorry...just testing this
I don't think it's about being an Office "killer". This is about hosting email and calendaring, mainly. Then, they tie in the Docs & Spreadsheets to enhance collaboration, not to design out-of-this-world documents and whiz-bang spreadsheets.
I'm interested to see what comes from Google's acquisition of Writely. Maybe then we can discuss the decline of Office.
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I think the google enterprise idea is great. But I don't think it's ready to killl MS office. I hate MS, but I use office for work every day and the features are just not there yet. For a small business I don't know that you would need anything more then what's on google enterprise, but for a large business you would. But the idea behind what google is doing is great. I am looking to the day when it is full featured.
The 'battle' continues:
I don't know if you've tried Google Books yet, but it is yet
another web based resource who's time has come, in two ways. Google
Books allows users to search for a particular book and to view excerpts
from said book. It's a great "try before you buy" type of resource, a
digital library or bookstore that allows one to browse a bit before
making their purchase. It also makes find a book on an obscure subject
far easier. But Microsoft has a problem.
Microsoft exec.
Tom Rubin (not to be confused with Paul Rubins, the guy who played
Pee-Wee Herman) hopped onto a soap box before the American Association
of Publishers to endorse the AAP law suit against Google over their
search engines seemingly blatant disregard for copyright law. Hmmm,
wasn't Microsoft just sued for $1.52 billion (that's billion Doctor
Evil) by Alcatel-Lucent for copyright infringement?
Rubin
is accusing Google (Books) of taking a unilateral approach to copyright
law. It's the digitization of books that Microsoft has a problem with.
But Microsoft is doing the same thing for the British Library.
FUD at its finest.
Dabble is in that magic category where it does something that you
realize you need after you’ve tried it, and there’s nothing else that
does it. —Tim Bray
I breifly tested this app... it truly has "knock-your-socks-off" status compared to Google online spreadsheets or documents from what I've seen...but I didn't subscribe (so far) as my current needs don't include analysis of large amounts of data of the sort this app is geared for .... in a past life I would have given my left arm for it however....
Where I had dismissed other online apps that I had seen & tried, this one sticks in my mind as proof that when done right web apps can have a real future...
their home page is DabbleDB
have you guys checked out Zoho? http://www.zoho.com.
They have a decent suite of office-like apps... and they are coming upwith new ones frequently... also they are working towards single sign-on and integration within their apps.... and in this sense they are doing what Kiko couldnt do (the integration bit)... what do you guys think? if they can finda way to integrate their planner with GMAIL or Yahoo mail they might be onto somethign big...
Zoho is awesome. I haven't used it as much as I'd like to but it is definitely slick and has apps that I don't see the other online suites offering.
and not tomention their now integration with omnidrive... thats gotta make for a good duopoly!!
