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Chrome OS shooting for consumers or enterprise?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 14, 2010
Marco Arment from Instapaper thinks that Chrome OS will have limited appeal for consumers, will target businesses and not be well-received there due to lack of proper enterprise support and commitment. Here are a few quotes from Marco: Google’s targeting of Chrome OS is interesting. Rather than trying to attract consumers, who have demonstrated that they’re not interested in [...]
Gmail/Google Apps get major new capabilities
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 10, 2009
Google has finally made Gmail and Google Apps for Enterprise their focus area – these are no longer just one of their experimental areas. Within just last couple of weeks there were a few significant updates to Gmail/Google Apps (probably more than we’ve seen for the whole year before that!): Offline support both for Gmail [...]
Google ramps up APIs
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 3, 2008
Folks at Google have released another set of APIs for Google Apps and like the previous drop in September this one is for administrative tasks. This is actually a big deal deal because unlike earlier user-oriented APIs these give you programmatic administrative access to all users’ data and settings. Here’s the key difference in what [...]
Microsoft Azure vs Amazon, Google, and VMware
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 29, 2008
- In: Amazon | Google | Microsoft | VMware
- 25 Comments
Now that we had a few days to look at Microsoft’s Windows Azure it is time to compare it with other alternatives on the market. For our comparison we picked solutions from the biggest players in the market and potential to impact the industry in that area: Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google App [...]
Google Apps hitting the chasm?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 22, 2008
Looks like my recent Google Apps customer base estimates need corrections and the current growth is far smaller than the one we were seeing earlier this year. What’s happening? Are they stuck getting all the technology enthusiasts and visionaries they could get, and having no way of attracting the bigger mainstream market? Let’s look at [...]
Google Apps failure – someone’s opportunity
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 17, 2008
- In: Google
- 5 Comments
Google Apps (including GMail) were out (again) for commercial customers this week. Considering the August outages not that long ago, this can be a significant PR blow for Google’s enterprise efforts. Or this could be a great opportunity for 3rd-parties to get in and make Google Apps enterprise-ready. Here’s a quick summary from Slashdot: “A [...]
How many Google Apps users are there?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 3, 2008
- In: Google
- 2 Comments
I’ve tried to search through all the public information out there to find out how many people are actually using Google’s productivity suite, how many of them are in businesses, and how many are actually paying for the service. Total number In August Eric Zeman from the InformationWeek reported the figure of 10 million users. [...]
28% of enterprises evaluating Google Apps
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 2, 2008
Bloomberg is running an article on Kevin Turner (Microsoft’s COO), how he is re-organizing Microsoft sales, and fighting competition from Google. A few facts from the article caught my attention. First and foremost: Twenty-eight percent of technology buyers in a Goldman survey this month said they were trying Google applications or plan to in the [...]
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