Google Looking More Like Enterprise Software Vendor
The Guardian reports this morning Google is partnering with consultants to push Google Apps:
Google has linked up with IT consultancy and outsourcing specialist CapGemini to target corporate customers with its range of desktop applications, in the search engine's most direct move against the dominance of Microsoft.CapGemini, which already runs the desktops of more than a million corporate workers, will provide its customers with "Google Apps" such as email, calendar, spreadsheets and word processing.
This is a logical step for Google and continues the almost inevitable moves by Google and Microsoft that show it's applications, not operating systems that matter.
Also, this is not an all-or-nothing proposition. MS Office and Google Apps will coexist:
CapGemini expects customers to mix and match products, providing some users with expensive Microsoft tools and others with cheaper and lower-spec Google Apps.
Update: Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet picked up on Microsoft's response today. It includes a list of 10 questions prospective buyers should ask Google. Foley wonder's if the pot is calling the kettle black (yes). I think the list also shows that power users need more that Google Apps offers but at the same time Microsoft sells more than many of us need. Not everyone has to drive an 18-wheeler.
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