Fee Based Google Apps
Google has announced an online office suite that may (or may not) be serious competition for Microsoft’s big desktop cash cow. Some details are here and at this link. This latter article comments:
It’s widely seen as a serious threat to Microsoft’s office suite, primarily since it costs $50 a year per user, which deeply undercuts the price of Office.
The free version is still available, but if you pay for the service you get 24/7 phone support, a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee for e-mail, more online storage space, and other business-friendly features. You also can make it appear that Google’s services (like your e-mail) are on your own Web domain, and Google makes it fairly simple to do so.
But let’s be clear about one thing: While Google Apps has a lot of potential and may ultimately challenge Microsoft Office as a desktop suite, it is simply not there yet. The word processor and spreadsheet can’t exchange data, for example. The spreadsheet has no graphing function. And there’s no presentation program (PowerPoint competitor), although there are indications that Google is getting close to releasing one
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