Google的新玩意儿

Google真快要和M$开战了，转两篇：

http://news1.mydrivers.com/pages/20070223231059_70515.htm

Google正式推办公软件 对抗Office
作者：Skyangeles 编辑：Skyangeles　2007-2-23 23:10:00

今天，网络巨头Google正式推出了他们的办公软件套装Google Apps Premier Edition，真正开始了和微软Office帝国的正面对抗。实际上，Google Apps早已有之，包括了多款软件，Gmail，Google Talk，Google Calendar，Docs & Spreadsheets，Page Creator及Start Page，可实现电邮，即时通讯，日程表、文字处理，电子表格和网页编辑等功能。之前的Gmail容量为2GB，页面上会出现广告，并且正处在测试阶段，有时会出现问题。而此次推出的Premier版将邮箱容量扩大为10GB，保证99.9%的正常运行时间，可以为企业定制邮箱和运行页面，并增加了许多企业管理功能，以及全天候的技术支持。开始收费则是Google Apps走向商业软件的标志，Google Apps Premier Edition对企业每个员工每年的服务价格为50美元，到4月底前可以免费试用。目前的办公软件市场由微软Office把持，在大型企业中的市场占有率为68%。Office 500到600美元的价格相比Google是一大劣势，但从另一方面，隐私性是它的优势。Google Apps完全基于网络，所有数据都储存在Google的服务器上，要获得大型企业的信赖并非易事。Google的代表也表示他们的目标客户是目前没有采用Office的企业。


http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-02-22-n90.html

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Google Apps Premier Edition Coming

A screenshot of the current Google Apps for Your Domain offering
A good source tells me that Google will soon announce the selling of a premium version of their Google Apps service for $50 per year and user. Named Google Apps Premier Edition, this package will include 10 gigabytes of email storage. The service will have a 24 hour tech support as well as a promised uptime of 99.9%. Blackberrys will be able to have mobile access to emails. The package will also include Google’s Docs & Spreadsheets program, that is, word processing and Google’s Excel clone.
Google describes their existing Google Apps for Your Domain service like this:
Google Apps for Your Domain lets you offer private-labeled email, instant messaging and calendar accounts to all of your users, so they can share ideas and work more effectively. These services are all unified by the start page, a unique, dynamic page where your users can preview their inboxes and calendars, browse content and links that you choose, search the web, and further customize the page to their liking. You can also design and publish web pages for your domain.
While Google continues to claim they’re not directly competing with Microsoft, their likely Google Apps Premier announcement is heating up the competition with products like Microsoft Office or IBM Lotus... some companies may be convinced that GAPE (nice acronym, though we may just end up calling it “Google Office” in some years) justifies delaying buying MS Office 2007.
[Thanks A.!]
Update: And it’s live now, with a free trial until April 30th this year. Google Apps for Your Domain has been renamed to just Google Apps.

[Thanks Reto, PacificDave, Jason Schramm, Manoj Nahar and Search-Engines-Web!]
Google Apps Premier Edition Co ... by Philipp Lenssen

Google一直给人出其不意的印象，这次更是印证。他们最令人佩服的地方就在于将自己手中的互联网等技术充分发挥，每一个新产品都融入已有的产品链的功能体系，搞得Google的功能越来越完备和强大，这种能力的关键又在于强大的构想与实际的转换能力。