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[Nvyseal]

Five Reasons You Will

1. Because it's not a zero sum game. You can (and should) use Google's apps in conjunction with Microsoft's software. Especially since Sally McSlowPants in accounts payable is still struggling with e-mail.

2. Because you've got a small company with wired employees, and you either don't want to pay or can't pay start-up costs for servers and software.

3. Because Google plans to offer APIs for integrating with directory servers and service-level agreements, potentially making the suite more attractive to larger customers.

4. Because you're looking forward to the day when Google also offers free online data storage (GDrive).

5. Because you really, really really want Google Talk to be successful. Really.

Five Reasons You Won't

1. The privacy agreement. You don't want ads sold around your e-mails, and you don't want the prospect of ads being sold around your business data. You're not comfortable with Google's prying eyes.

2. To borrow a phrase from Pip Coburn's book, "The Change Function," there's no user crisis that will entice your company to change. Your users don't need offline access to their files (yet). The pain of using Microsoft Office isn't greater than the pain of switching to a new model.

3. Your IT group is gonna go nuts when they see they have to try to manage that distributed data. And besides, you'd rather have your apps and docs living on your own servers.

4. The Google apps aren't completely integrated with each other.

5. Sarbanes-Oxley or other industry regs prevent you from even considering using hosted apps.

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Would you use google office?

[m.oreilly]

yeah, distributed data makes me nervous i think i'll stick w/ ms office, et al.

[simon]

yea me to im with oreilly