Microsoft, IBM feel heat from Google Apps
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| Google Apps, a hosted service, is gaining traction primarily in universities
| but is a welcome addition to enterprise software because of its simplicity
| and ease of use, said Rob Curry, director of Microsoft's Office business
| platform group, during a panel discussion today at the Enterprise 2.0
| conference in Boston.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=5938333&rid=-50
See links at the bottom.
Next up: Windows?
Gubuntu- Google and Linux
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| Coming back to Google, they do have the pockets and engineers to make
| Gubuntu or Glinux possible. As both a mac and pc user I can only applaud
| it if this ever happens.
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http://wetech.blogspot.com/2007/06/gubuntu-google-and-linux.html
If a 50-people company could get an O/S contract with Dell, so can Google. They
only have the 'IBM dilemma', where companies like Lenovo, Red Hat, and SuSE
get direct support.
Related:
No Demand For Browser-Based Microsoft Office?
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| Raikes said the browser-based application space is extremely
| important to watch, but there is not a lot of demand now for
| Microsoft Office in the cloud.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070427/33730_id.html?.v=1
Google manager: Google Apps replaced Microsoft Office at 100,000 businesses
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| Google's newly released online productivity suite Google Apps has
| already replaced Microsoft Office at more than 100,000 small to
| medium enterprises and has been deployed at two of the largest
| companies in the world, according to the search leader's
| enterprise product boss.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9889/53/
Dumping Office for Google Apps
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| Google has a friend in Disney, and that could leave Microsoft screaming
| like a jilted lover.
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http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/02/07/dumping-office-for-google-apps/
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| Microsoft has warned Google to steer clear of corporate search,
| declaring that the market is "our house"....
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| "Those people are not going to be allowed to take food off our plate,
| because that is what they are intending to do."
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2160431/microsoft-warns-google-business
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