Similar? Only on paper. Sure it will be designed to meet a bullet-point list of formal features compiled by an Analyst, but those won't matter much in the end.

Similar? Only on paper. Sure it will be designed to meet a bullet-point list of formal features compiled by an Analyst, but those won't matter much in the end. It will not have the appeal nor the ability to interconnect with standard-abiding software from ISVs from all over the world the Google offering does right now. Carpet-bombing style marketing won't help much.