Google really, really, really wants to kick Microsoft in the office application department, as Australian IT today is reporting that they’re looking to hire a heap of resellers to push Google Apps on Small and medium businesses in Australia. By April this year, resellers will be able to “sell, customise and support Google Apps Premier Edition for small-to-medium business and enterprise customers”. The plan has already been trialled by 50 partners worldwide.It will be interesting to watch – Google’s premium offering is significantly cheaper than Microsoft’s and everything runs “in the cloud”. Even though Microsoft is pushing in that direction too, the fact Google doesn’t need any desktop software makes it particularly alluring for travelling businessmen and the homeless.
What do you guys reckon – Google apps or MS Office for small-to-medium business?
foobar
Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 1:48 PMNo way people are going to move from their own Exchange servers. You’d have to be insane to trust having all your company emails in the cloud, where you have no control over them.
mojo
Friday, January 16, 2009 at 12:08 AMThe only reason people have not move from their Exchange servers is because techies stand loose a lot of work. Unlike gmail, exchange server are a constant stream of income for people like myself :-) Now, google is offering me some money, hmmm