There was an interesting news bit today about Google battling Microsoft head on --> http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/21/magazines/fortune/lashinsky_pluggedin_google.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007022209
I do not understand how the author of this article fails to talk about or even speculate what Google's next move is. It is very possibly a Google Productivity Appliance. Just like a Google search appliance for enterprises where an enterprise buys this black box and hooks it up to their network. This appliance then crawls and discovers all the content it comes across in the enterprise intranet and indexes it, just like Google.com does the entire internet.
Once an enterprise buys this productivity appliance and hooks it to their intranet, then everyone can access word processing, spreadsheet, email, calendar and other productivity software just by clicking on a link in the corporate portal as if the application is available on their hard drive. This way it provides the security, backup etc that an enterprise needs along with providing software as a service to the enterprise. You can even chargeback the various departments in the enterprise based on usage or other metrics. If the author had speculated this then it does justice to the title. Why not?
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