Comments on: Google's enterprise vision is in the cloud

The search giant sees its strength in the consumer market giving it an edge as business computing moves online.

[ptzkiler]

I think google will never goes down it has thousand of workers world wide google going down it can't be happen
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[kwhsy82]

As someone who has worked in both consumer and enterprise spaces, the Google guy's comments show the issues that Google will have. Google, and consumer apps, are great. But enterprise wants additional services, which if Google thinks "we just build great stuff", they're in trouble. Enterprises want things like 7 by 24 customer support; "roadmaps" for the future from senior executives, etc.. They also prioritize some features (security, support for "legacy" systems) differently than do consumers. Issues like "end user training" come up. If you think about it, all this is logical, given the concerns of a company. Apple found that "just great computers" may not sell into the enterprise. (And yes, I've read the articles about Macs creeping into corporations, but fine, face it, it's competing against Vista.) Google will have to compete with HP, IBM, Oracle, etc.

[ncl209]

While Google, Amazon, and the other big players are definitely here to stay, there is an increase in the number of smaller services, such as www.octopuscity.com, that are offering Web 2.0 functions such as a business community with other services that have traditionally been the realm of the big players such as CRM and contact management.