Comments on: Online office apps and os’s: Why they won’t gain significant traction

By: Ailsa

Ailsa — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:21:00 +0000

Very well-written. It was very interesting to see Bill and Steve compared along these lines. I agree that you nailed it with your last paragraph.

By: Ailsa

Ailsa — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:21:00 +0000

Very well-written. It was very interesting to see Bill and Steve compared along these lines. I agree that you nailed it with your last paragraph.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:01:00 +0000

I think you nailed it with your last paragraph. The future for enterprise corporations will be to host their own online solution. You will see soon a "Google/Yahoo/MS/Whoever Apps Retail Edition" where the large corporation can host the online OS's/Office solutions within their own IT infrastructure. Thereby keeping the data "in-house".

What we are seeing today is the development efforts of this type of system. The public is being used to perfect a product which can then be sold to enterprise corporations.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:01:00 +0000

I think you nailed it with your last paragraph. The future for enterprise corporations will be to host their own online solution. You will see soon a “Google/Yahoo/MS/Whoever Apps Retail Edition” where the large corporation can host the online OS’s/Office solutions within their own IT infrastructure. Thereby keeping the data “in-house”.

What we are seeing today is the development efforts of this type of system. The public is being used to perfect a product which can then be sold to enterprise corporations.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:09:00 +0000

Google Apps are good, but, not for anything serious. I still prefer to use OOo or Excel when I am doing, for example, my budget. I know Google "does no evil", but I still don't trust them.

Now, Google's spreadsheet app was handy yesterday when I was doing some online research. I had the lappy open with Google up and then did the research on the desktop. Had the GF not come over to the computer, I could have just shared the Google Doc with her.

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By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:09:00 +0000

Google Apps are good, but, not for anything serious. I still prefer to use OOo or Excel when I am doing, for example, my budget. I know Google “does no evil”, but I still don’t trust them.

Now, Google’s spreadsheet app was handy yesterday when I was doing some online research. I had the lappy open with Google up and then did the research on the desktop. Had the GF not come over to the computer, I could have just shared the Google Doc with her.

-A