arstechnica.com — Google Apps for Education adoption is driven by a lust for Gmail, not a desire to escape Microsoft's Office, according to several schools that have signed on to test Google's web-based educational suite.
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theaceoffireAug 20, 2007
Here is how I get people interested:1-800-Goog-411^_^ Their free 411 service... I use it to find out what restaurants are open on holidays, whether my hotel has an opening, or if there is some place that sells video games near my apartment...Free too.
hijstrAug 20, 2007
"and several international schools have hopped on as well."? Last I remember, Trinity College in Dublin were the first to adopt Gmail
themortalcoilAug 20, 2007
It also helps when most of the alternatives blow. At least it did here at ASU...
jbhannahAug 20, 2007
Arizona State already has it. It's really a great thing for universities---the collaborative document editing in particular is brilliant, Google made a good move by picking that up. Plus Gmail's interface is far better than any other webmail interface, and (@hdias123) the POP access, even for my Gmail for ASU account, is flawless.Tip: GCALDaemon to synchronize a calendar program (e.g. iCal) with Google Calendar, including Google Apps with another domain.
jamesnotjimAug 20, 2007
The word processor docs are HTML-based. You can export to PDF, Word 97-2003 (.doc) format, OpenDocument Text (ODT), RTF, and HTML. You can import all of those and StarOffice's older format. The spreadsheet module imports CSV, Excel (.xls), and OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS) and spits out those plus PDF. I'm not sure what format the spreadsheet stores internally, though.
techgnosticAug 20, 2007
I too feel your pain, but are you positive you cannot forward your email? I have that feature available for our corporate email in the Lotus client and the web-based client.
Closed AccountAug 20, 2007
this has nothing to do with us using eudora, you'll still be able to access it from clients like outlook or eudora, this just changes the webmail interface
jhonblack12Dec 8, 2008
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