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Google’s Biggest App Distributor May Be Moving To India : New Web 2.0 Magazine — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:16:51 +0000

[...] became the largest distributor of Google Apps with a deal signed in September. Under the deal CapGemini collects a £25 licence fee for each install, plus additional fees for [...]

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Google’s Biggest App Distributor May Be Moving To India — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:21:56 +0000

[...] became the largest distributor of Google Apps with a deal signed in September. Under the deal CapGemini collects a £25 licence fee for each install, plus additional fees for [...]

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By: Michael Fischer

Michael Fischer — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:49:33 +0000

To my knowledge, nothing in Sarbanes-Oxley forbids public companies from storing their documents on servers they don’t own. Can you substantiate this comment, Michael?

By: 11 Reasons why Google Apps is Better than MS Office | dailyApps

11 Reasons why Google Apps is Better than MS Office | dailyApps — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:19:52 +0000

[...] the recent partnership of Google with CapGemini to help in promoting Google Apps for Organizations some major companies like Microsoft and Zimbra [...]

By: C Libor

C Libor — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:10:13 +0000

googleapps are a nice idea, its needed often, but a killer ?? Not really.

Besides Sarbox – you could easily put the stuff on an internal server – the Q remains, how to address company internal compliance, confidentiality, privacy issues. Answers still open, because outside google’s business understanding. Right tool, wrong company.

Eric Schmidt!, hand the stuff over to ME to further develop it and we share the licencing fees, OK ?

By: smcnally

smcnally — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:30:53 +0000

capgem’s working this in europe.
in europe, there is no sarbOx.

there are thousands of SMBs, tho, and many of them dont need more horsepower than google apps currently offer.

nice work getting that deal done.

By: smcnally

smcnally — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:25:43 +0000

capgem’s working this in europe.
in europe, there is no sarbOx.

there are thousands of SMBs, tho, and many of them dont need more horsepower than google apps currently offers.

nice work getting that deal done.

By: Techticles

Techticles — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:16:44 +0000

Google Docs is a piece of crap. And obviously you do not know anything about how Office functions in the enterprise. Who told you fonts is the reason enterprise upgrade their office?

The collaboration of Office and MOSS is hard rock solid unlike you’re crappy Google apps.

Google apps works best for elementary school papers.

Next time, do your research first because it is so irritating how you glorify Google docs and belittle Ms Word when in fact you know nothing about it.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:26:00 +0000

Yeah I dont think Google’s offering is as feature rich as the others like ZOHO. However they being Google, this is significant.

Not even a day has passed and this news has drawn heat from Microsoft and Zimbra. Check it out

http://abhishek...ement/#more-214

By: Abhishek Tiwari

Abhishek Tiwari — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:19:54 +0000

Google Drawing Heat After Enterprise Market Announcement…

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Just yesterday I posted about ZOHO and their move in the small business marketplace and potential threat to Google. Google made a significant announcement toda…

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:10:39 +0000

This stuff will make your Vista installation unstable, stay away from it!

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: Murthy

Murthy — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:11:32 +0000

>> CapGemini will collect a £25 licence fee for each install
>> A large telco is supposedly ready to install Google Docs on some of its desktops this month

Doesn’t Google Apps run on a browser & requires no install? Think ‘user accounts’ is a better way of wording this than ‘desktop installs’

By: SmoothSpan Blog

SmoothSpan Blog — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:03:48 +0000

Google Apps Can Win in the Enterprise if they Leverage the Business Trust Fabric…

Lots of chit chat in the blogosphere about the announcement that CapGemini will be distributing Google Apps in the Enterprise–an apparent threat to Microsoft’s Office.
The reasons to do this seem to focus around the improved ability for tea…

By: Sprezzatura

Sprezzatura — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:04:18 +0000

Corporations facing an expensive forced upgrade to Vista & the latest iteration of MS Office are going to look more closely at alternatives than they might otherwise, which is good for Google.

I personally don’t find Google Apps useful for anything more than the most basic work. And until they can be a complete replacement for their desktop versions, I’m not moving, because keeping some documents online and others off depending on what functionality I need, is even worse than the status quo.

By: Mott Dawg

Mott Dawg — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:46:02 +0000

Why use Google anyway. When there is Bluetie

By: Michael Fitzpatrick

Michael Fitzpatrick — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:31:27 +0000

This offering will continue to see very poor enterprise-adoption until a true enterprise-class service level agreement is in place. No enterprise is going to its core desktop services until it has the commitment from the vendor/service that the service will be available. For most companies today, desktop apps such as Microsoft Office and Lotus still keep the companies going through ad-hoc workflow and information sharing, so productivity apps are critical to the business.

By: Jens B

Jens B — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:27:59 +0000

I agree and do not think that Google Apps is ready for enterprise level.
- Offline issue (mobile workers)
- Security issue (sarbox)
- Spreadsheet performance (marcos, linked spreadsheets etc)
- printer unfriendly documents (the paperless enterprise is not out there)

In addition I think 25GBP per desktop is very high – good negotiation from Cap Gemeni here.

On the other hand I don’t doubt that Google could build an enterprise level office application (they might already have) – but the way we know google apps today, I do not see it replacing current office application solutions.

I am still trying to convince myself that I don’t need MS Office, but it is getting harder and harder…

By: levr

levr — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:12:52 +0000

i am using google aps for months. i think google still need to work more on it because formating is a big issue in google aps. its seems like im back to the software of the 90s.

By: Hemanth

Hemanth — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:51:05 +0000

Welldone Big G!! hmm.. £25/install? Gosh!

http://www.techtalkz.com

By: Matt_

Matt_ — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:20:40 +0000

Until Google integrates Google Gears into apps its going to be almost impossible for anyone to pitch this to enterprise or small business

By: Thierry Schellenbach

Thierry Schellenbach — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:07:43 +0000

These apps need to be off-line for enterprise usage.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:06:55 +0000

Once Google adds Jotspot and Presentations, it will be a great tool for companies. I also like Zoho, they have complete Office set.