Google Saddles Up, Rides with Apps for Your Domain
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Written By Reprise Media | August 28, 2006 | Share This
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And if what we read is any indication, Google’s racing to head off Microsoft’s upcoming Office 2007 release at the pass. TechCrunch, at least, thinks the debut of these Google Apps as a “bold” stroke against Microsoft’s supremacy in the enterprise space. From Google:
“Google Apps for Your Domain lets you offer our communication and collaboration tools to your entire organization — customizable with your branding, color scheme and content through the administrative control panel, and with no hardware or software to install or maintain.”
Those tools, currently, are Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Google Page Creator. Lacking a word processor and a spreadsheet, Google Apps for Your Domain isn’t quite ready to tackle MS Office just yet, especially when Office 2007 promises collaborative features of its own, which would erase Google’s only differentiating advantage here.
Word from Battelle, though, is that an ‘enterprise’ version - souped up and ready for use by large businesses - is in the works, and could include the Writely word processor and Google Spreadsheets before the end of the year. We’re not sure why Google would release Apps for Your Domain at all without those two components, which are pretty much essential to most business environments, large or small. It does appear, like Michael Arrington says, like a bit of a rush job - the acronym, for instance (GAYD) doesn’t seem to have gotten the benefit of much proofreading.
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