Comments on: Gen Y takes to Google Apps

By: Shaughn, Portland, OR

Shaughn, Portland, OR — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:11:19 +0000

I just don’t see what all the brewhaha is about…All fine and good…but when internet connectivity goes down…or Google’s servers have a problem…your business is SHUT DOWN! ZERO WORK…Cloud computing fills a niche and that is it. Until we have a world where nothing ever breaks there must be some way available to keep working. When software resides locally on the PC it allows work to be done both on and offline! When Google finds a way to provide the SaaS OFFLINE then they might have something work talking about! Till then this is nothing but a nice marketing ploy by the worlds largest SEARCH ENGINE!

By: Guy Creese, Andover, MA

Guy Creese, Andover, MA — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:35:51 +0000

Actually, FG, I do get it. I remember when LANs came along and they wouldn’t stay up, had terrible security, etc. Everyone in the mainframe and minicomputer community stood around and laughed. Five years later, LANs had corrected a lot of their shortcomings and ten years later they reigned. I just don’t think the change will happen as quickly as Google wants or that Google is destined to win the market. A company that built a SaaS solution from the get go to enterprise requirements–rather than dressing up a consumer solution and claiming it’s fit for large enterprise primetime–could clean Google’s clock.

By: FG, Springfield, OH

FG, Springfield, OH — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:15:32 +0000

Guy Creese must be part of the ‘older’ generation, and clearly he doesn’t get it. I remember when we first started getting thing like PC’s and email in the workplace, and a lot of older guys like him at the time said “we don’t need these new fangled things, my typewriter works just fine.” Wake up Guy…

By: JV, Fairfax, Virginia

JV, Fairfax, Virginia — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:09:30 +0000

Google has written several whitepapers that describe how companies, both large and small, can benefit from using the suite of Google Apps. Titles include Curbing Costs with Google Apps and Google Apps: Quick Tour