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Is Google Apps now a real Microsoft Office competitor? | |
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| Time: 10:25 EST/15:25 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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An alliance forged between Google and systems integrator CapGemini was the talk of the blogosphere on September 10. Many commentators are looking at the new partnership as proof that Google finally is ready to make business inroads with Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) — mostly at Microsoft’s expense. To me, there are some pieces that still don’t quite add up. | ||
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| #26 By 37 (76.210.78.134) at 9/11/2007 2:02:36 PM |
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That's the thing Lloyd. I don't need or want windows at home, not even as a dual boot. I have ZERO need for such an environment. I have not once said "I wish I had windows on here so I could run application A, B or C.
What you are talking about is power users. If you look at it from a home consumer standpoint that needs to edit photos and videos, browse the internet, stream music to my home theater, and connects Quicken to their bank for online banking, Windows does nothing I need additional. I no longer worry about seeing those "you have new updates to be installed" balloons popping up in the systray corner everyday. I no longer see that "send error report" message from many applications. I have forgot about the "illegal operation/end now/CTRL+ALT+DEL/End Task" crap. The clean form factor is a bonus, and a very welcome bonus for that matter. That didn't SWAY my entire purchase, but it did have a factor in it. Not to mention, switching users. Oh man.....long gone are the days of going to Start > Log Off > Switch User and waiting for each desktop to appear. On the Mac, the wife and I just click on each others name up on the system toolbar and the desktop 3D rotates back and forth instantly. I also thoroughly enjoy having a unified standard toolbar in one location for each application. The consistency in design on the Mac OSX is leaps and bounds beyond any of my Windows experiences. I could go on and on, but this comment section isn't ideal for that conversation. It's the best computing decision I have ever made. (second best decision was switching from hotmail to gmail for my web based computing needs). |
| #27 By 37 (76.210.78.134) at 9/11/2007 2:24:39 PM |
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Let me add to my last comment by stating, for the record, I couldn't operate at my work without Windows and Microsoft Office. The Hilton Corporation's entire system runs on Windows Servers, Windows Workstations, Microsoft Office/Exchange, and a completely Windows based property management and HotelSalesPro system, worldwide.
So, at work, I too would be one of the "dual booters" if I, for whatever reason, had a Mac desktop. However, at work, for personal use, I run Firefox, Google Apps, gmail, iTunes, and Gimp on my work station. :-) |
| #28 By 37047 (74.101.157.125) at 9/11/2007 7:10:46 PM |
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#25: Now apply this same logic to productivity suites - and let me know what one cannot do with Office, free WSS Sharepoint, etc... that one can do with Google Apps? Now reverse that question and ask what Office and the Windows Client/Server ecosystem can do that Google can't? Line up your lists and make your decisions. It's pretty easy to see which comes out on top... and it ain't Google.
A much better and more useful comparison would be to take a list of all the features you need in an office productivity suite, and then make a column for MS Office, a column for OpenOffice, a column for AbiWord, etc., and then mark off which application performs each function point by point, and figure out which application performs the most features for the best price, and go with that one. Yes, MS Office is a very full featured and powerful application suite. It integrates well with a wide range of Microsoft applications and servers. However, if you are not in an environment where you use all those other servers, then this ability would be of minimal benefit, and not worth the premium price for the ability. For example, at home I do some basic word processing, some light spreadsheets, etc. Thus, OpenOffice works quite well for me in that environment. Therefore, it would be a waste of money to pay a premium price for all the functionality of Word, Excel, etc., in my home environment. On the other hand, at the office, I wouldn't want to do without Outlook. Word, Excel, etc., get some use, but even there I don't use 95% of the functionality of these applications. However, since we are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we get good pricing, so it is much cheaper there than I could personally get licenses for. Therefore, as I have stated in other postings, it comes down to which applications best meet your needs for the best price and performance point. Until you know what the customer's needs are, I don't believe anyone can logically recommend any productivity suite. Some environments absolutely need Microsoft Office, and others can make due quite well with alternatives, from OpenOffice to WordPerfect Suite, to WordPad. That is the benefit to having options. Different needs can be met in different ways. |
| #29 By 15406 (99.224.112.94) at 9/11/2007 7:16:54 PM |
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| #30 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at 9/12/2007 12:54:12 AM |
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;-) This post was edited by mooresa56 on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 00:54. |
| #31 By 37 (76.210.78.134) at 9/12/2007 6:17:11 AM |
| That Writer vs. Word review is horrible. I have Word 2007 at work, and I use the latest Writer on my Mac at home, and I disagree with 80% of that review. That review was written by a biased OSS fan for sure. It was entertaining to say the least. |
| #32 By 22962 (74.236.229.87) at 9/12/2007 12:06:28 PM |
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#8, Since you use a Hotmail email acct that shows in your profile. Hotmail reads your email as well as Google. No matter what ISP or email provider you get email acct from, they read your email. Even if you use it for either personal or business.
I watched David Letterman show a few years ago, that he mentioned about AOL reads the emails. If you don't like what they are doing, then I wouldn't sign up for an email acct if I were you. If you do not have anything to hide, you don't need to worry about anything. |
| #33 By 37 (76.210.78.134) at 9/12/2007 12:17:39 PM |
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Here is a scary thought. I work for Hilton, and we have someone that worked here that used to work in AOL tech support. They were able to read the AOL customer's emails.
Hows that for security? |
| #34 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at 9/13/2007 6:03:06 PM |
| that is scary AWBrian, but really no more so than at 99% of businesses... where some group of network admins (take your pick of title) can do the same thing. |
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