The next big software war to be fought is in the cloud. I have been following Google Apps since its inception as an offshoot of gmail. Google’s ever improving suite of online software has evolved into Google Docs and for businesses, Google Apps. It is an economical choice for a small business to provide protected email, shared calendar, messaging, software applications and shared access to documents with NO I.T. responsibility.
Now there is a new kid in town, or soon to be. Microsoft is about to debut Office 365. It will compete directly with Google Apps for business and provide a hosted productivity and collaboration environment for businesses. Small businesses who typically cannot afford an I.T. staff or who do not want to maintain their servers will now have a choice.
Google and Microsoft are providing an integrated suite of common office applications PLUS a collaboration platform PLUS messaging. When offered at an affordable price it becomes very appealing. Especially when it does not involve those dreaded server updates and reboots. Let some one else worry about that.
So let’s see how this develops, there are many questions. Does our internet infrastructure provide the kind of responsive we have become accustomed to with our desktop/notebooks and local area networks? How many businesses are going to adopt Cloud computing and store important documentation somewhere out there? How safe, private is this data?
Many questions, the story is now unfolding.
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