Comments on: Google launch attack on the Office Enterprise market http://www.tomrafteryit.net/800/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:42:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: MacManX.com | Blogroll Dive: 8/28/06 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/800/#comment-22862 MacManX.com | Blogroll Dive: 8/28/06 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:33:14 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/800/#comment-22862 [...] And, Tom reported on the launch of “Google Applications for Your Domain”. [...] [...] And, Tom reported on the launch of “Google Applications for Your Domain”. [...]

]]> By: Paul Watson http://www.tomrafteryit.net/800/#comment-22797 Paul Watson Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:29:26 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/800/#comment-22797 I've been using the Google for Domains beta for awhile now (sans the Page Creator) and it has been excellent. Having your "own" Jabber/GTalk "server" is very cool. Haven't had any outages or other reliability issues in the past few months either. I’ve been using the Google for Domains beta for awhile now (sans the Page Creator) and it has been excellent. Having your “own” Jabber/GTalk “server” is very cool.

Haven’t had any outages or other reliability issues in the past few months either.

]]> By: Michele http://www.tomrafteryit.net/800/#comment-22785 Michele Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:45:51 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/800/#comment-22785 From what I could see it looks like they'll be charging for this once they've got past the beta stage. As I already suggested, unless they improve their customer service the rest of us need not worry too much. From what I could see it looks like they’ll be charging for this once they’ve got past the beta stage. As I already suggested, unless they improve their customer service the rest of us need not worry too much.

]]> By: Maria taking pictures http://www.tomrafteryit.net/800/#comment-22768 Maria taking pictures Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:12:09 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/800/#comment-22768 Interesting development. I think Google is planing to play a major role in the free software market. The spreadsheets service appears to be cool but useless, because it needs internet access which can be broken sometimes. I wonder who is going to use this software instead of the free Openoffice.org Thank you for sharing this story with me ! Interesting development. I think Google is planing to play a major role in the free software market. The spreadsheets service appears to be cool but useless, because it needs internet access which can be broken sometimes. I wonder who is going to use this software instead of the free Openoffice.org

Thank you for sharing this story with me !

]]> By: fmk http://www.tomrafteryit.net/800/#comment-22765 fmk Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:03:43 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/800/#comment-22765 I recently bought a new laptop which came pre-installed with XP Windoze Home edition - which I hadn't realised at the time didn't have MS Word / Excel on it by default (it comes witht he 'lite' versions of these packages, which are - frankly - useless). I was going to just bag a copy of MS Word / Excel off someone (as I do actually need them time to time, partic the spreadsheets) but then got pointed to OpenOffice.org. It's a bit slow to start, but it works a treat - so you don't have to wait for Google to get their act together, there already is a viable alternative MS Office applications. I'm personally reluctant to rely on online applications in order to do some very basic tasks - internet connectivity is not guaranteed, and atleast with a desktop app you can still do *some* work, even when an internet connection is not availabel to you. And of course, putting my tin-foil hat on, I really do think Google knows more than enough about my life as it is - I don't *really* want it to know too much more :) I recently bought a new laptop which came pre-installed with XP Windoze Home edition - which I hadn’t realised at the time didn’t have MS Word / Excel on it by default (it comes witht he ‘lite’ versions of these packages, which are - frankly - useless).

I was going to just bag a copy of MS Word / Excel off someone (as I do actually need them time to time, partic the spreadsheets) but then got pointed to OpenOffice.org.

It’s a bit slow to start, but it works a treat - so you don’t have to wait for Google to get their act together, there already is a viable alternative MS Office applications.

I’m personally reluctant to rely on online applications in order to do some very basic tasks - internet connectivity is not guaranteed, and atleast with a desktop app you can still do *some* work, even when an internet connection is not availabel to you.

And of course, putting my tin-foil hat on, I really do think Google knows more than enough about my life as it is - I don’t *really* want it to know too much more :)

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