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Google Spreadsheets: The Soccer Mom's Excel | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: Michael Dragone | ||
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Google is emerging as the poor man's Microsoft.
The latest evidence of this surfaced June 5, when Google began testing a free, online spreadsheet feature.
This is a spreadsheet for soccer moms, Little League baseball coaches, church bazaar organizers, college students or small businesses of less than 10 employees.
It's for the otherwise curious who haven't used a spreadsheet before, and don't have a lot to lose using a potentially faulty product.
It's not for Fortune 500 companies yet. So is Spreadsheets any kind of competition for the incumbents in this space, namely Microsoft? | ||
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| #1 By 7760 (12.155.143.50) at 6/7/2006 7:23:41 AM |
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That is probably the best article that I've read on Google. While everyone is crowing about Google threatening Microsoft, the reality, as the article points out, is more likely that Google is just trying to expand its base of advertisers and so has money on its mind moreso than illusions of challenging Microsoft.
The markets for the two companies are completely different. Microsoft makes its money from selling feature-rich, pressed-disc, software solutions to businesses willing to shell out huge bucks for them, and Google makes its money from attracting interest from tight-pursed individuals with their feature-light, online, software solutions. There's really very little competition for the same market going on between the two companies. |
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