Friday, December 28, 2007

Google Apps - Lean and mean means millions of users

According to an article in Computerworld, Google Apps -- the online competition to Microsoft's Live and Sharepoint services and Apple's .mac service -- already has millions of users signed up at the close of 2007. Whether that translates into dollars will be another story entirely. Perhaps most interesting is the push among analysts to suggest feature after feature for new products while Google continues to resist. "Google will develop only apps and features that would be of interest to 80% of users...We're not looking or even attempting to equal the feature list of other apps on the market," said Rajen Sheth, senior product manager for Google Apps. "We're not looking to be a replacement for Office. We're focused on collaboration more than anything."

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9054120

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