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Google Cloud vs. MS Officeby Alok Misra on 21st May, 2009 |
Will Google’s cloud-based email platform eventually kill MS office? We don’t know, but companies have surely started looking at Google’s platform more closely. Leena Rao of Techcrunch points out in her article at http://tcrn.ch/1rg that Google struck a partnership with Valeo, an automotive components manufacturer, to deploy Google Apps on the company’s entire global workforce of about 30,000 internet-using employees. We already know about Genentech adopting the Google Cloud platform for 20,000 users.
It will take some time before large companies start replacing MS Office. However as third parties create more commercial products in the Cloud that are tightly integrated with Google Gmail, docs, calendar etc, we may see more organizations considering the switch from Office to the Google platform. We will be testing the waters soon with Navatar’s Financial Services products for Force.com, taking advantage of the tight partnership between Google and salesforce.com.
Stay tuned!
Alok Misra
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I really don’t know what to think about microsoft and its cloud computing technologies. I doubt I would use it, it seems like too much of a security problem.
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I love Google Apps and I recommend Google apps for many. But it is a suicide if you replace MS office with Google Apps. For instance, MS Excel is the Business Analytics and Decision software for most small and medium businesses. Having seen first hand, how excel is used by Business executives and management teams, I came to conclusion that it would be impossible for them to even think of leaving excel.