nytimes.com— Google and Salesforce, two of Microsoft’s most conspicuous rivals, are expanding a 10-month-old collaboration in an effort to accelerate their sales of customer management and office software to businesses.
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Take one look at the very laptop you read this post from. What is it? A communications device. How does it communicate?: internet!Messengers, web browsers, online games, voip, office for exchanging documents and such, email, etc, etc.How can there not be a business model for internet?
The only thing that can fight MS is open source. A single cathedral-style developed commercial office suit doesn't stand a change in hell. And let's face it: there are 3x more odf files than ooxml files on the web.But the enemy of my enemy is my friend. So I hope they can at least take a small percentage of the office suit market.
I think the whole idea of having everything online can both be a scary issue while being a good thing. Firstly, you would have everything centrally located in one location online by paying a small fee. This avoids the HUGE cost of implementing Microsoft into a business type setting. Anyways, the whole security issue relies on the measures the company is taking for their customers.
vincentweberApr 14, 2008
Take one look at the very laptop you read this post from. What is it? A communications device. How does it communicate?: internet!Messengers, web browsers, online games, voip, office for exchanging documents and such, email, etc, etc.How can there not be a business model for internet?
vincentweberApr 14, 2008
The only thing that can fight MS is open source. A single cathedral-style developed commercial office suit doesn't stand a change in hell. And let's face it: there are 3x more odf files than ooxml files on the web.But the enemy of my enemy is my friend. So I hope they can at least take a small percentage of the office suit market.
derivativesApr 14, 2008
Googles quarterly report is coming out tomorrow, here is a good story detailing this exact topic. <a class="user" href="http://www.directcreditonline.com/yahoo-partner-google">http://www.directcreditonline.com/yahoo-partner-go ...</a>
habenneasApr 15, 2008
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habenneasApr 16, 2008
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hansm712Dec 3, 2008
I think the whole idea of having everything online can both be a scary issue while being a good thing. Firstly, you would have everything centrally located in one location online by paying a small fee. This avoids the HUGE cost of implementing Microsoft into a business type setting. Anyways, the whole security issue relies on the measures the company is taking for their customers.