June 8th, 2009
Google Apps set for a big update Tuesday
It sounds like Google is planning a huge update to Google Apps Tuesday — it’s a mystery still as to what they may be announcing, but there are a couple of hints that have been dropped recently.
The first hint was in a tweet from Dave Girouard, Google Enterprise unit president. He said that they want Google Apps to include every Google service, period. That’s cool, but it’s probably going to probably take a bit more than that to make Google Apps a competitive enterprise solution.
The second hint was dropped a couple weeks ago by Dave again. He said that Google Docs is going to look drastically different from how it looks currently — but he also said this would happen over the next 12 months.
Personally, I would like to see Google Apps be less of a pure cloud based solution, and more of a solution that you can run inside your corporate network (perhaps using the Google cloud as almost a backup service). An announcement of something like this is highly unlikely, but it’s nice to dream!
Let’s hear your predictions for tomorrow’s announcement in the Talk Back!
Garett Rogers is employed as a programmer for iQmetrix, which specializes in retail management software for the wireless industry.
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