Comments on: Google Apps – Premier Edition

By: Aphrodisiac

Aphrodisiac — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:31:50 +0000

Well all the infomation is stored on google’s computers….
can we trust google?

By: custumsoftware

custumsoftware — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:22:49 +0000

Very nice
http://bookingengine.galaxyweblinks.com/

By: Artjom Kurapov

Artjom Kurapov — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:39:50 +0000

I have a calendar demo, similar to google one
http://kurapov.name/calendar/

By: loom

loom — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:21:13 +0000

Nice info thanks

By: hi

hi — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:27:04 +0000

A lot of usefull info . Thanks

By: randy

randy — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:23:18 +0000

thanks for the information

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:31:48 +0000

The only thing still missing is a shared contacts app. Once they have that, sign me up!

By: Anthony Yates

Anthony Yates — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:10:05 +0000

It’s an option for very light users, and it puts some pricing pressure on the Office low end editions.
An appliance version would be more useful for businesses.

By: smithee

smithee — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:56:13 +0000

I’ve been using Google Apps and Apps for Your Domain daily for months and I love them, calendar and docs are terrific, however I’m surprised they went live this soon…

- Google Spreadsheets are painfully slow and not ready for prime-time.
- The start page is just plain broken, it doesn’t work well at all and the administration functions are nil.
- Support is horrible for all the apps. It’s horrible even for a free app. It will be interesting to see if it improves when people are paying for it. Google doesn’t have a great reputation for human-to-human interaction.
- Some kind of offline client, even just to download and backup data automatically, is badly needed.

I love my Google Apps, but I think I’ll start a pool to guess what day this year the Google Apps backlash will hit hard.

By: Kin Lane

Kin Lane — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:31:40 +0000

With the API it is a pretty powerful combination. I have been migrating some clients to this platform because I don’t have to worry about the biggest pain point. Email.

By: Dji

Dji — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:30:32 +0000

Am I reading their offer correctly: free for educational institutions? What’s the institutional cost for supporting 65,000 students on your own email system vs Google?

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:58:24 +0000

This is useless without an internet connection. Period.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:38:22 +0000

Yeah Dantv, it will make our laptops smaller and lighter.

By: Dantv

Dantv — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:15:48 +0000

@Ed
That’s all true…Funny what Google’s doing here…Another case of history repeating itself. I remember the 70′s when I would sit down at a dumb terminal and logon to the mainframe to get my email, my docs and my spreadsheets. Sure they were primative compared to today’s apps but it’s just the same thing. Seems to me that it won’t be long before Dell and others will be selling a network ready diskless dumb terminal for $150 bucks…

By: Ed Knittel

Ed Knittel — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:53:07 +0000

@Dantv
Obviously, this isn’t for everyone. But if you’re a small time operation with 1-10 employees this seems to me to be a no-brainer. I think once Page Creator gets better it could make more sense for small businesses to move their email, web, and intranet needs over to Google’s system.

By: Dantv

Dantv — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:32:22 +0000

Big problem with this package….All data will be stored on Google’s computers…Big privacy problem here. Our Company would never allow data to be stored out of our control. period.

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:14:36 +0000

And there I was thinking it was a Mad Magazine gag I was ripping off :-).

By: Braden

Braden — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:39:33 +0000

Oh, sure, it’s not enough to copy Slashdot’s stories–you have to steal their joke format, too.

(I jest, I jest.)

By: Joe Hanink

Joe Hanink — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:27:31 +0000

Google also recently added support for email aggregation – basically fetching email from POP3 servers. This is cool because if you have multiple accounts, you can view/search your email from one place.

This is still not the holy grail, because some providers like yahoo mail don’t provide POP3 access in their free version, and if you want to perform business analytics or collaboration across different users’ accounts, you’re out of luck.

Radixmail intends to fill this gap – http://www.radixmail.com

Comments welcome.

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:26:57 +0000

Felix, Yes, 10GB…makes more sense for a company that gives away 2+GB to each mail user for free.