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What really struck me was that they're only offering three nines of uptime. I can't see many businesses ditching Excel or Word to go with something that will c
by redthrowaway 14y ago
What really struck me was that they're only offering three nines of uptime. I can't see many businesses ditching Excel or Word to go with something that will cost you half a day of productivity every year, especially not for $50 a license.
- ams6110 14y agoWhat's the "nines" of uptime on a typical corporate desktop? By my back of the envelope calculations it's worse than 3.
- toomuchtodo 14y agoI'll take "Google downtime" (a damn small amount) over any other sort of downtime (Rackspace, AWS US-EAST-1, the hardware on my desk) any day of the week.
- janlukacs 14y agoSame here :)
- redthrowaway 14y agoEven so, it's not like they're replacing the desktop. This is in addition to the downtime they can already expect.
- acchow 14y agoNo. If your computer needs a restart, or an OS update, or a reformat, or got run over by a car you have downtime. With Google Apps, you just keep going on your other laptop/tablet/smartphone/friend's computer/etc.
- ygjb 14y agoIt really depends how much they go into the Google Apps bit; for $50 you are not getting word and excel, you are getting a whole range of related IT services, including online document sharing with access controls. That in and of itself is worth a huge amount of money.
- krrrh 14y agoWhy do you assume that a company that uses google apps will ditch Word and Excel. I see this logic all the time and it makes no sense. I haven't seen any company that uses google apps delete Office from thier computers. The point of Google Apps is ditching Exchange.