Comments on: Google Set to Accelerate Enterprise Push http://www.mspmentor.net/2009/10/23/google-set-to-accelerate-enterprise-push/ Managed Services Blog for Top Managed Service Providers Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:17:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Shawn http://www.mspmentor.net/2009/10/23/google-set-to-accelerate-enterprise-push/comment-page-1/#comment-50497 Shawn Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:57:25 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/?p=4546#comment-50497 "It’s a smart strategy: Get the kids hooked on Google Apps in college, and they’ll demand Google Apps when they enter the workforce." Kind of like the Apple strategy in the 80's when they placed a IIe in every classroom, no? Might take a while, as did Apple's, for this to pay off, but good strategy nonetheless. It also gets this generation very familiar and comfortable with cloud-based applications. Which naturally will lead to a "dumb PC" that serves simply to access items in the cloud. But I agree with Joe's comment--many start-ups and small companies are going Google. Combine Google, Salesforce, and OnState, and you get cloud-based mail/docs, a CRM, and a communications system all for under $150/employee month. Not a bad start-up model in terms of cash flow and CAPEX/OPEx, and it requires no commitment. “It’s a smart strategy: Get the kids hooked on Google Apps in college, and they’ll demand Google Apps when they enter the workforce.”
Kind of like the Apple strategy in the 80’s when they placed a IIe in every classroom, no? Might take a while, as did Apple’s, for this to pay off, but good strategy nonetheless. It also gets this generation very familiar and comfortable with cloud-based applications. Which naturally will lead to a “dumb PC” that serves simply to access items in the cloud.

But I agree with Joe’s comment–many start-ups and small companies are going Google. Combine Google, Salesforce, and OnState, and you get cloud-based mail/docs, a CRM, and a communications system all for under $150/employee month. Not a bad start-up model in terms of cash flow and CAPEX/OPEx, and it requires no commitment.

]]> By: Joe Panettieri http://www.mspmentor.net/2009/10/23/google-set-to-accelerate-enterprise-push/comment-page-1/#comment-50487 Joe Panettieri Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:33:55 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/?p=4546#comment-50487 Hi Simplicius: Thanks for making the jump from The VAR Guy to MSPmentor. It might take some time for Google to gain traction in large enterprises. But I bet a good number of start-up businesses use Google Apps from day one to share documents and track simple business tasks. I speak from experience here at Nine Lives Media Inc., MSPmentor's parent. BTW I love your blog! Hi Simplicius: Thanks for making the jump from The VAR Guy to MSPmentor.

It might take some time for Google to gain traction in large enterprises. But I bet a good number of start-up businesses use Google Apps from day one to share documents and track simple business tasks. I speak from experience here at Nine Lives Media Inc., MSPmentor’s parent.
BTW I love your blog!

]]> By: Joe Panettieri http://www.mspmentor.net/2009/10/23/google-set-to-accelerate-enterprise-push/comment-page-1/#comment-50478 Joe Panettieri Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:23:34 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/?p=4546#comment-50478 Hi Simplicius: Thanks for making the jump from The VAR Guy to MSPmentor. It might take some time for Google to gain traction in large enterprises. But I bet a good number of start-up businesses use Google Apps from day one to share documents and track simple business tasks. I speak from experience here at Nine Lives Media Inc., MSPmentor's parent. Hi Simplicius: Thanks for making the jump from The VAR Guy to MSPmentor.

It might take some time for Google to gain traction in large enterprises. But I bet a good number of start-up businesses use Google Apps from day one to share documents and track simple business tasks. I speak from experience here at Nine Lives Media Inc., MSPmentor’s parent.

]]> By: Simplicius http://www.mspmentor.net/2009/10/23/google-set-to-accelerate-enterprise-push/comment-page-1/#comment-50477 Simplicius Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:16:41 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/?p=4546#comment-50477 JP wrote: "Get the kids hooked on Google Apps in college, and they’ll demand Google Apps when they enter the workforce." You are absolutely right. Some of the resistance Google is facing comes from professionals who are wary of trusting their data to Google, but people who are now in their twenties and represent the next generation of managers and entrepreneurs have literally grown up trusting Google and others. I suspect that when it's their time to take decisions, they'll have less qualms than we see today. JP wrote: “Get the kids hooked on Google Apps in college, and they’ll demand Google Apps when they enter the workforce.”

You are absolutely right. Some of the resistance Google is facing comes from professionals who are wary of trusting their data to Google, but people who are now in their twenties and represent the next generation of managers and entrepreneurs have literally grown up trusting Google and others. I suspect that when it’s their time to take decisions, they’ll have less qualms than we see today.

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