Google Apps Making Inroads
Google Apps, the online answer to desktop office suites, is picking up paying customers in spite of the products limitations.
The city of Washington D.C. signed a contract this summer to roll Google Apps out to city employees according to Bloomberg. According to the story:
more than 500,000 organizations use Google Apps. Clients are mostly smaller businesses and universities, and 3,000 more sign up each day.
About half of these are paying customers.
MS Office has long been accused of feature bloat. The fact that Google Apps can succeed with radically fewer features demonstrates there is something to those criticisms. If Google invests more in Google Apps (or just buys Zoho) they'll likely reach a bigger market share.
Then, their next big challenge will be convincing businesses their confidential data will remain that way.
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